The Airbus A330-800 is a rare variant of the Airbus A330neo and is operated by Kuwait Airways, Uganda Airlines, and Air Greenland. According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, three airlines are flying Airbus’s unpopular A330-800 as of July 2024. While the success of the Airbus A330neo family has made it one of the world’s most popular aircraft, the same is not true for the -800 variant. Only seven A330-800s are in service with three airlines (although more have been ordered).
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Video: The KC-45 (A330 MRTT) – How Boeing Won A Contract First Given To Airbus
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- January 8, 2025
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February 29th, 2008. It was the day that Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it had been selected by the U.S. Air Force to provide the KC-45A aerial refueling tanker for the KC-135 tanker replacement program. Most notably, this jet would be based on the A330 commercial airframe, produced by EADS – which, these days, would be Airbus’ Defence and Space division.Unfortunately, the celebrations wouldn’t last long for Airbus and Northrop Grumman.Just days later, Boeing would launch a full-scale counteroffensive to convince the Air Force that it had selected the wrong aircraft. In the end, Boeing was successful in overturning the Northrop Grumman deal, having its 767-based tanker win instead. It’s been quite awhile since this whole ordeal took place – long before our website and YouTube channels existed. So we thought it would be interesting to take a look back for today’s video!