The Airbus A330 is a wide-body jet airliner built by the European manufacturer Airbus, introduced into service in 1994 as a twin-engine counterpart to the four-engine Airbus A340, developed together on a shared airframe so airlines could choose the number of engines that best suited a given route's range requirements. Built for medium- to long-range service and widely adopted by airlines around the world for both passenger and later dedicated freighter use, the A330 became one of the best-selling wide-body airliners of its era, and an extended-range version later kept it in strong demand even as the four-engine A340 fell out of favor with airlines seeking twin-engine fuel efficiency. A re-engined successor, the A330neo, extended the family into the 2020s.
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SignificanceA long-range wide-body twinjet that shares its wing and much of its structure with the four-engined A340. 1 Manufacturer or Builder In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Airbus A330
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The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus.
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The A330-300, the first variant, took its maiden flight in November 1992 and entered service with Air Inter in January 1994.
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The A330 shares many underpinnings with the airframe of the early A340 variants, most notably the same wing components, and by extension the same structure.
In Group: Wide-Body Airliners, Lead sentence
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus.
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