Lufthansa’s final A340-600 flights close a long-running chapter in premium quadjet travel.

Emirates Flight 407 lifted from Melbourne with a hidden weight error that left 257 passengers and 18 crew seconds from ...

Lufthansa Group will retire the last four Airbus A340-600s in its fleet in October and ground two Boeing 747-400s for the ...

Airbus’ A340 laminar-flow Blade test demonstrator aircraft has made its successful maiden flight for the EU-sponsored Clean Sky Blade project. The aircraft, dubbed Flight Lab, took off from the Tarbes ...

In an event unprecedented in its 38-year history, Airbus is flight-testing a powerplant that currently has no application on any of its products - Pratt & Whitney's GTF geared turbofan demonstrator.

Airbus intends to later this month start flight-testing an A340 that has been fitted with experimental laminar-flow wing sections under a partially EU-funded technology project with other industrial ...

Emirates' remarkable A340-500 seats 12 First Class passengers in the world's first enclosed suites with sliding doors that can be closed for privacy. The new aircraft also seats 42 customers in ...

For the first time ever an Airbus A340 has landed on an ice runway in Antarctica. Operated by Hi Fly, the jet flew from Cape Town in South Africa to the world's southernmost continent and back earlier ...

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has become the latest airline to phase out A340s, operating its last A340-300 scheduled flight at the end of Sep-2018 without fanfare. PAL accelerated the retirement of its ...