Airbus A340 Manual
With a service range of 7,400 nautical miles, Airbus’ A340-300 is tailored to meet the needs of the 275-300-seat long-range market – offering direct point-to-point services and increased flight frequencies at lower costs. It thrives in many market environments and often forms a key part of a larger international operation with major and flagship carriers, operating along with other A330 or A340 models.
As flagships with smaller airlines, A340-300s provide vital long-range links to and from less populous cities; while serving as a cost-effective 275- 300-seat long-range complement for operators of A320 Family aircraft. As a result of its four engines, the A340-300 does not require any ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards) certification – allowing for quick start-up of long-haul operations. It also has good ‘hot and high’ capability at airports that would be off-limits to other aircraft. Like all members of Airbus’ family of modern jetliners, the A340-300 features a number of key innovations, including fly-by-wire flight controls, which bring increased flight protection as well as weight and cost savings; advanced weight-saving materials such as carbon fibre; and fuel-saving aerodynamics.
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Commonality with Airbus’ family of fly-by-wire jetliners also brings important reductions in training and maintenance costs, providing customers with an important competitive advantage. Under the main deck, the A340’s large cargo holds provide voluminous capacity for extra revenue. With large cargo doors standard, it can accommodate industry-standard LD3 containers in side-by-side loading. The A340-300’s forward hold can hold six 96-inch pallets or 18 LD3 containers, while the aft hold accepts 14 LD3s or a mix of three 96-inch pallets and two 88-inch pallets. The A340-300 demonstrates outstanding environmental efficiencies, including low fuel-burn and reduced engine emissions, while the decreased noise signature comfortably meets international standards.
The A340-300 provides the best economy in its class, reaching a 5 per cent lower fuel per trip compared to competing aircraft. The four-engine A340-300 features a wonderfully quiet cabin, a key element for relaxing on long-haul operations. Seating 275-300 passengers in a typical configuration, or up to 440 travellers in a high-density arrangement, everyone flying can enjoy the extra personal space available in the widebody twin-aisle cabin. With wider seats and the possibility of including a wide variety of customised interiors and in-flight entertainment options, passengers can settle in and enjoy their flight.
With enduring appeal to both passengers and businesses, the A340-300 continues to be a popular aircraft. With such superior levels of space and comfort, time on-board flies by and everyone can reach their destination feeling refreshed and relaxed.
Beware of this very spacious premium eco center section. There is a ton of legroom, but other passengers will invariably think it is a passage to cross to the other aisle. We had tons of people shuffling over our stretched out legs and hand luggage until we put a stop to it. Very inconvenient because the monitors are in the seatbacks ahead so every time someone wants to cross over they block your screen. Also trip and bump into your legs. Just be aware and block the passage somehow, the others will get the message.
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Contrary to what SeatGuru states, this is an amazing place with plenty of legroom; I could stretch my legs without a problem, as there is no bulkhead between Economy and Premium Economy. The monitor on the backrest of the seat in front is too far to reach, so there is an additional fold-out monitor in the armrest. This might slightly reduce the seat width, but I still felt comfortable during the whole 11 hours trip. I highly recommend this seat to any economy class passenger, and would like to thank the Lufthansa ground crew and the Frankfurt gate for assigning this seat to me! Flew BOS-MUC in 24D. Seems improved versus when I flew LH PremEco a year ago.
I'm 5'11' & average build and found the seats comfortable enough to have slept through the night until awakened by cheerful breakfast service - really appreciated that there's no guilt fully reclining because there's so much space behind row 24 for the emergency exit pathway. Headrest moves up & down and sides fold almost as far as to a right angle if desired. Headphones provided but they are not noise-canceling. No kit (blinders, toothbrush, socks) provided. Lower power outlet didn't work for the whole flight - USB by the monitor did, however.
Meals were decent. It felt like a decent value to pay the extra cost for this seat because it tinkers with the edge of luxury enough to bring much greater flying satisfaction - no regrets. Aside: I traveled with my bike/box and it was considered included luggage - BRAVO.
Airbus A340-600 Manual
Seat 1G is a middle First Class Seat. It is located in front of the toilet and behind a service area.
Flight attendents and passengers stept into your privacy area in order to go to the toilet or to deal with the service area. Hence, first Class Privacy is not granted. Same applies to seat 1F. As all other middle seats in F, there is no overhead compartment. Consequently you have to fight with the passengers on the window seat for storage.
This is not on the level of first class! Furthermore, as all middle seats. Honestly, I love all the A340s and A330s, in my opinion, there are the best for long-haul-travel in economy, due to the 2-4-2-seating. It is such a pain having to climb over 2 people when going from window seat to the aisle - or having 2 people that have to climb over you when sitting at the aisle (even more so at night).
So it is great that there is no seat more than one other seat apart from the aisle. Furthermore, especially the A340-600 is very quite, very calm in the air, and the lower deck lavatories are extraordinary roomy. Such a pitty this airplane is no longer produced by Airbus.
Having flown the A340-600 for the first time it has become my favourite aircraft! The front cabin is even more quiet than the A380, and way quieter than the 747, even the new 747-8I. Further back there is admittedly a bit more low-pitch rumble from the engines, but still very quiet. Lufthansa has now changed their business class seats to lie-flat. The window seats are parallell to each other whilst the middle seats are angled in towards each other. Very comfortable seats, but why LH is still keeping business class in 2-2-2 configuration puzzles me. Window seat passengers has to climb over their aisle seat co-traveller to get in and out.
Should definitely have been a different configuration with aisle access for all seats. Anyway, great seats and great plane, shame they are beeing replaced by A350 soon. Flew this version to Munich and back from JFK.Seat was just enough for me as I am big and tall.(6'4' 320lbs.) If much bigger it would have been tough.Seat belt was fine without extender.I stay buckled throughout flight.Food was good.service polite and attentive.The big issue on this plane is toilets.Look at seat plan.5 toilets for economy and prem. Econ.(245)and10 for first and business(52).Plus to access toilets you must go down flight of stairs. Big line coming from 4 directions in middle of galley area.Must move around crew and confused fliers.Fellow fliers were very polite about letting each other go ahead.On one flight FA's let a few elderly fliers go to 1st./Bus.
Toilets but it was limited.Also the statement about narrower seat 22A-K due to tray table in armrest somewhat inaccurate.all seats have tray table in armrest.They seemed the same as our seat with lots of legroom and no setback coming at you.I would take that seat if I was to fly this version again. Flew ORD-MUC on A340-600 V5. It's a modern and new plane, nice seat-back monitors in Economy with USB connect side of screen; Economy seats are ergonomic, seat slides slightly horizontally forward when inclined. I'm 5'10' and was comfortable, able to cross my leg. Window on 51A is ideal, allows your head to rest on wall when seat is reclined. I checked out seat 55 A/B and 56 A/B they will be my preference due to wider isle in the back of the plane, gives sense of more space.
Food was average, flight attendandants on my flight were below the standard that is typically Lufthansa. Overall I would say this flight is the best from Chicago to Germany. FYI-I walked around the plane and noticed that it is markedly colder around seats 37H/J, 36HJ, 35H/J, 34H/J.
Area in the back of the plane (rows 44-58) were at good temperature. The best x-tra legroom in Economy is row 28 - no bulkhead in front, just a curtain and plenty of space for your legs. Flew on Premium Economy seat 25A from Munich to S達o Paulo, a 12h flight and could sleep fairly well most of the trip. PTV is HD and the whole interior was brand new.
The only drawback is that due to the emergency exit (and thus extra legroom) the row in front is far from this seat, which means that the PTV is also far from you and the headphones provided by Lufthansa lack enough wire for you to enjoy the IFE with the seat reclined. Should you have your personal headphones with extra wiring, everything is OK and the flight will be pleasant.
Beware of this very spacious premium eco center section. There is a ton of legroom, but other passengers will invariably think it is a passage to cross to the other aisle. We had tons of people shuffling over our stretched out legs and hand luggage until we put a stop to it. Very inconvenient because the monitors are in the seatbacks ahead so every time someone wants to cross over they block your screen. Also trip and bump into your legs.
Just be aware and block the passage somehow, the others will get the message. Contrary to what SeatGuru states, this is an amazing place with plenty of legroom; I could stretch my legs without a problem, as there is no bulkhead between Economy and Premium Economy. The monitor on the backrest of the seat in front is too far to reach, so there is an additional fold-out monitor in the armrest. This might slightly reduce the seat width, but I still felt comfortable during the whole 11 hours trip. I highly recommend this seat to any economy class passenger, and would like to thank the Lufthansa ground crew and the Frankfurt gate for assigning this seat to me!
Flew BOS-MUC in 24D. Seems improved versus when I flew LH PremEco a year ago. I'm 5'11' & average build and found the seats comfortable enough to have slept through the night until awakened by cheerful breakfast service - really appreciated that there's no guilt fully reclining because there's so much space behind row 24 for the emergency exit pathway. Headrest moves up & down and sides fold almost as far as to a right angle if desired. Headphones provided but they are not noise-canceling. No kit (blinders, toothbrush, socks) provided.
Lower power outlet didn't work for the whole flight - USB by the monitor did, however. Meals were decent. It felt like a decent value to pay the extra cost for this seat because it tinkers with the edge of luxury enough to bring much greater flying satisfaction - no regrets. Aside: I traveled with my bike/box and it was considered included luggage - BRAVO. Seat 1G is a middle First Class Seat. It is located in front of the toilet and behind a service area.
Flight attendents and passengers stept into your privacy area in order to go to the toilet or to deal with the service area. Hence, first Class Privacy is not granted. Same applies to seat 1F.
As all other middle seats in F, there is no overhead compartment. Consequently you have to fight with the passengers on the window seat for storage. This is not on the level of first class!
Furthermore, as all middle seats. Honestly, I love all the A340s and A330s, in my opinion, there are the best for long-haul-travel in economy, due to the 2-4-2-seating.
It is such a pain having to climb over 2 people when going from window seat to the aisle - or having 2 people that have to climb over you when sitting at the aisle (even more so at night). So it is great that there is no seat more than one other seat apart from the aisle. Furthermore, especially the A340-600 is very quite, very calm in the air, and the lower deck lavatories are extraordinary roomy.
Such a pitty this airplane is no longer produced by Airbus. Having flown the A340-600 for the first time it has become my favourite aircraft! The front cabin is even more quiet than the A380, and way quieter than the 747, even the new 747-8I. Further back there is admittedly a bit more low-pitch rumble from the engines, but still very quiet. Lufthansa has now changed their business class seats to lie-flat. The window seats are parallell to each other whilst the middle seats are angled in towards each other. Very comfortable seats, but why LH is still keeping business class in 2-2-2 configuration puzzles me.
Window seat passengers has to climb over their aisle seat co-traveller to get in and out. Should definitely have been a different configuration with aisle access for all seats.
Anyway, great seats and great plane, shame they are beeing replaced by A350 soon. Flew this version to Munich and back from JFK.Seat was just enough for me as I am big and tall.(6'4' 320lbs.) If much bigger it would have been tough.Seat belt was fine without extender.I stay buckled throughout flight.Food was good.service polite and attentive.The big issue on this plane is toilets.Look at seat plan.5 toilets for economy and prem.
Econ.(245)and10 for first and business(52).Plus to access toilets you must go down flight of stairs. Big line coming from 4 directions in middle of galley area.Must move around crew and confused fliers.Fellow fliers were very polite about letting each other go ahead.On one flight FA's let a few elderly fliers go to 1st./Bus. Toilets but it was limited.Also the statement about narrower seat 22A-K due to tray table in armrest somewhat inaccurate.all seats have tray table in armrest.They seemed the same as our seat with lots of legroom and no setback coming at you.I would take that seat if I was to fly this version again. Flew ORD-MUC on A340-600 V5.
It's a modern and new plane, nice seat-back monitors in Economy with USB connect side of screen; Economy seats are ergonomic, seat slides slightly horizontally forward when inclined. I'm 5'10' and was comfortable, able to cross my leg. Window on 51A is ideal, allows your head to rest on wall when seat is reclined. I checked out seat 55 A/B and 56 A/B they will be my preference due to wider isle in the back of the plane, gives sense of more space. Food was average, flight attendandants on my flight were below the standard that is typically Lufthansa. Overall I would say this flight is the best from Chicago to Germany.
FYI-I walked around the plane and noticed that it is markedly colder around seats 37H/J, 36HJ, 35H/J, 34H/J. Area in the back of the plane (rows 44-58) were at good temperature. The best x-tra legroom in Economy is row 28 - no bulkhead in front, just a curtain and plenty of space for your legs. Flew on Premium Economy seat 25A from Munich to S達o Paulo, a 12h flight and could sleep fairly well most of the trip. PTV is HD and the whole interior was brand new. The only drawback is that due to the emergency exit (and thus extra legroom) the row in front is far from this seat, which means that the PTV is also far from you and the headphones provided by Lufthansa lack enough wire for you to enjoy the IFE with the seat reclined.
Should you have your personal headphones with extra wiring, everything is OK and the flight will be pleasant.