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The Airbus twin-aisle cabin, at 222in width (vs 198in for the 767) allows a full 747 style first class utilising the latest in sleeperettes. Business class is also in a comfortable 2-3-2 configuration while economy is typically 8 abreast. The additional fuselage width also allows the carriage of two LD3 containers side by side in the spacious underfloor cargo holds,
Update – Airbus lndustrie A330/340
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Airbus Industrie A330 & A340
The key to long-term success in the fiscally volatile world of airliner manufacture is most certainly based upon being able to offer high quality products over a diversified product range. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have proven this theory over many decades while Lockheed also proved that having only one thoroughbred in your jetliner stable was tantamount to ruin.
For any reasonable measure of long-term commercial success, a manufacturer must be able to offer a varied product base offering a range of state-of-the-art airliners satisfying a wide range of capabilities. During its first decade and a half Europe’s Airbus Industrie barely remained viable with initially just the A300 and later its smaller brother, the A310. The launch of the 150 seat A320 in 1984 signalled to the giant North American manufacturers that at last their sleeping competitor across the Atlantic had arrived as a potential sales force of great magnitude. That Airbus were mixing both advanced technology (long considered to have been an almost natural right of the US) with aircraft that were becoming ever more popular and highly regarded by the world’s airlines has resulted in nothing short of a state of paranoia in Seattle in particular. Topping this off is the near abandonment of Boeing’s much-publicised 7J7 propfan airliner and the massive sales success of the A300 and A320 in the once captive North American market.
What has brought this chain of events to fruition is a diversified product base that today covers five different aircraft types offering up to 8 separate versions. Within this family of jetliners, which has commitments nearing 1,000 aircraft, resides the consortium’s latest offerings, the A330 “big twin” and the ultra long-range four engined A340.
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