{"id":259575,"date":"2025-07-31T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a380-vs-a340-more-mpg\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:00:18","slug":"airbus-a380-vs-a340-which-aircraft-gets-more-miles-per-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259575","title":{"rendered":"Airbus A380 Vs. A340: Which Aircraft Gets More Miles Per Gallon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The A380 and the A340 are two quad-engined aircraft built by Airbus, and the only airline where <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2025711\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-fleet-in-2024\/\" >they can be found operating side-by-side is Germany&#8217;s Lufthansa<\/a><\/span>. The Airbus A380, also known as the &#8216;superjumbo,&#8217; consumes much more fuel than the much smaller<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256457\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A340<\/span><\/span>, but this is a meaningless comparison in isolation, as the A380 such a different aircraft. What is more important, however, is the relative fuel consumption per seat for a given distance flown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A380 has an advantage over the A340 in fuel burn per seat, although there is some nuance as they are designed for different roles.<\/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":[426,789,898,396,397,17449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a340","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fuel-efficient"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259575","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=259575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259576,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259575\/revisions\/259576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}