Welcome aboard the rare Lufthansa Airbus A340-600, which I flew from Chicago to Frankfurt. This is an economy class review and what's more, the video includes a good look at the unique downstairs ...

Lufthansa Group will put all of its Airbus A380s and 10 of its A340-600s into long-term storage, only to be reactivated in the event of an “unexpectedly rapid market recovery”, and will permanently ...

The afterlife of a decommissioned airplane can take many forms nowadays. Some are dismantled and used as parts, others simply end up in aircraft graveyards, while a select few are reinvented as modern ...

The A340-600 is quickly exiting from major airline service, a victim of the coronavirus downturn. Its last two large airline operators, Iberia and Lufthansa, are parking the four-engined jet known for ...

2015 has brought the exit of Asian operators of the A340-500/600. Thai Airways retired its A340-600s, having previously retired A340-500s, while China Eastern has retired its A340-600s. As CAPA ...

Lufthansa will decommission its entire Airbus A340-600 fleet over the next two to three months. The carrier already has parked three of the 17 aircraft in its fleet in Teruel, Spain, and eventually ...

Internal reports at Lufthansa reveal that two of its Airbus A340-600 flights to the USA have suffered contaminated cabin air that made the pilots and cabin crew unwell. On one, the flightcrew had to ...

Airbus launched the A340 in the early 1990s as a long-range widebody to serve intercontinental routes at a time when four engines were still viewed as a necessity. Despite its capability, the aircraft ...

Lufthansa Flight Training has installed the first Airbus A340-600 full flight simulator at its Frankfurt base. A first flight was conducted on Monday with Virgin Atlantic's single A340-600 as the ...

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The afterlife of a decommissioned airplane can take many forms nowadays. Some are dismantled and used as parts, others simply end up in aircraft graveyards, while a select few are reinvented as modern ...