But Iberia did operate its peak A340-600 fleet for the longest: its 17 -600s were in service for around 10 years, whereas Virgin Atlantic peaked at 19 aircraft for only five years.

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Iberia has retrieved an Airbus A340-600 damaged in a hard landing at Quito, but has yet to determine when the aircraft will re-enter airline service. Skip to main content Skip to navigation ...

Iberia’s A340-600s were to decrease from 17 to 10 this year, five in 2022 and then exit by 2025. The 777-200s at British Airways were next to be retired, with the 46-strong fleet reducing to ...

Spanish operator Iberia is getting ready to start a retrofit program for 17 Airbus A340-600s next year, which is scheduled to start in mid-October 2012 at its Madrid maintenance facility. Each ...

Iberia has signed a contract with Airbus for the acquisition of 12 A340-600s (five firm and seven options), bringing to 15 its acquisition of Airbus’ latest and largest airliner to date. This ...

However, there is still a chance that the quadjet is not out for the count. Let's see how it could make a comeback. When ...

Iberia has yet to decide whether to repair the Airbus A340-600 that overran at Quito, Ecuador, after striking the runway so hard during landing that damaged sensors ultimately impeded the aircraft ...

Iberia is adding 13% to its weekly capacity between Madrid and Tel Aviv. Two of the 14 weekly roundtrips will be flown by Airbus A340-300s from Sept. 1. The airline replaces narrowbodies that have ...

Airbus is very pleased with today`s announcement by Iberia that it has selected the A340-600 over the 777-300ER. This decision follows a long and intensive evaluation process as part of Iberia`s ...