Airbus A350 News
Airbus delivers first A350-1000 to Qatar Airways
- 20 February 2018 -
Airbus has delivered the first A350-1000 widebody airliner to launch customer Qatar Airways on 20 February 2018, the first of 37 A350-1000s ordered by the carrier.
The A350-1000 is Airbus' latest and largest widebody twin. It has a 7 metre longer fuselage than the A390-900. In Qatar Airways configuration the A350-1000 offers 44 additional seats. The A350-1000 is intended for long ranges up to 8,000 nm (14,800 km). It features a modified wing trailing-edge, new six-wheel main landing gears and more powerful Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines. The Trent XWB-97 is the most powerful engine ever developed for an Airbus aircraft.
Qatar Airways is the world’s largest A350 XWB family customer with 76 aircraft on order and the largest A350-1000 customer. The airline already operates 20 A350-900s. (Photo: Airbus)
