{"id":237118,"date":"2025-06-18T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-problem-a380-design\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:01:17","slug":"the-problem-airbus-ran-into-after-designing-the-four-engined-a340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=237118","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Airbus Ran Into After Designing The Four-Engined A340"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A340 entered service in March 1993 with both Air France and Lufthansa less than a year before the Airbus A330 would make its commercial debut. With the A340, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> was looking to provide a widebody aircraft capable of handling long-haul overwater flights, like in the transatlantic or transpacific markets. At the time, twinjet aircraft were highly restricted by Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards (ETOPS) regulations that limited their deployment on certain sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulatory changes to twinjet operations left quadjets in the lurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,789,396,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237119,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237118\/revisions\/237119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}