{"id":365403,"date":"2026-02-10T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-airbus-a350-slower-approach-landing-speed-other-widebodies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:00:17","slug":"is-it-true-that-the-airbus-a350-has-a-slower-approach-landing-speed-compared-to-other-widebodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365403","title":{"rendered":"Is It True That The Airbus A350 Has A Slower Approach &amp; Landing Speed Compared To Other Widebodies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the pilots who fly the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255241\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A350<\/span><\/span>, it has a noticeably low landing speed for its size, although it isn&#8217;t enough of a difference to make it much of an outlier for widebody aircraft. The larger A380 has a higher landing speed than the A350, but not as much as one would expect for such a massive aircraft. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2048522\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mcdonnell-douglas-md-11-insane-landing-speed\/\" >real outlier when it comes to commercial aircraft landing speed is the MD-11 trijet<\/a><\/span>, which is fast to the point it requires more pilot training to operate safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A350&#8217;s approach speed is somewhat slower than other widebodies, but not so much as to start turning heads.<\/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":[426,430,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a350","category-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365403","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=365403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365404,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365403\/revisions\/365404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}