Update – Airbus Industrie A330 & A340

Airbus Prepare for Launch Of A330 and A340 Jetliners

Though Airbus Industrie had a great 1985, the sheer success of their two in-production wide bodies ably brought home the fact that the European aerospace consortium really need a diversified product base with which to compete against their North American counterparts.

Including the pre-Christmas announcement by TAA of their A320 purchase, Airbus Industrie wrote firm orders against 101 aircraft in 1985. In production terms, their two in-production aircraft, the A300 and A310, captured nearly three-quarters of the wide body twinjet market (29 A31Os & 24 A300s vs 2 767-200s & 20 767-300s) though represented as a fraction of the total jetliner market for the year the twin-aisle twinjet sector numerically represents a mere 11% of total world jetliner sales. It is this fact more that any other than has influenced Airbus thinking over the years and led to the consortium’s January decision to proceed in principle with two new programmes – the A330 and A340.

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