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A350
Qatar Airways was the A350-900 launch operator on 15 January 2015.
Role
Wide-body jet airliner
Type of aircraft
National origin
Multinational[a]
Manufacturer
Airbus Commercial Aircraft
First flight
June 14, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-06-14)[1]
Introduction
15 January 2015 with Qatar Airways[2]
Status
In service
Primary users
Singapore Airlines Qatar Airways Cathay Pacific Air China
Produced
2010–present[3]
Number built
592 as of 31 March 2024[update][4]
The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine airliner developed and produced by Airbus.
The initial A350 design proposed by Airbus in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the Airbus A330 with composite wings and new engines.
Due to inadequate market support, Airbus switched in 2006 to a clean-sheet "XWB" (eXtra Wide Body) design, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent XWB high bypass turbofan engines. The prototype first flew on 14 June 2013 from Toulouse, France. Type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) was obtained in September 2014, followed by certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) two months later.
The A350 is the first Airbus aircraft largely made of carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers.
It has a new fuselage designed around a nine-abreast economy cross-section, up from the eight-abreast A330/A340. It has a common type rating with the A330.
The airliner has two variants: the A350-900 typically carries 300 to 350 passengers over a 15,000-kilometre (8,100-nautical-mile; 9,300-statute-mile) range, and has a 283-tonne (617,300-pound) maximum takeoff weight (MTOW); the longer A350-1000 accommodates 350 to 410 passengers and has a maximum range of 16,100 km (8,700 nmi; 10,000 mi) and a 319 t (703,200 lb) MTOW.
On 15 January 2015, the first A350-900 entered service with Qatar Airways, followed by the A350-1000 on 24 February 2018 with the same launch customer.
As of March 2024[update], Singapore Airlines is the largest operator with 63 A350-900 aircraft in its fleet.
A350 orders stood at 1277 aircraft, of which 592 had been delivered and all were in service with 40 operators. The global A350 fleet has completed more than 1,300,000 flights on more than 1,160 routes, with one hull loss being an airport-safety–related accident.
It succeeds the A340 and competes against Boeing's large long-haul twinjets: the Boeing 787, the 777, and its future successor, the 777X.
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