Until recently most airlines preferred Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner or Airbus’s larger A350, but the A330neo is finally taking off.
Pride of place at Britain’s Farnborough Air Show usually goes to the biggest airlines with the biggest jets. But at this year’s jamboree in July, Virgin Atlantic, a David to British Airways’ Goliath, stole the show with one of its new midsize Airbus A330neos parked next to the runway.
Virgin is not alone in its embrace of the A330neo. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, American giant Delta, Germany’s Condor, Malaysia Airlines and Portugal’s flag carrier TAP have all recently also announced large orders for the plane. Cathay has ordered 30 with rights for another 30. He adds that it is also the quietest wide-body jet in the sky – not just for passengers but also for people on the ground. Airbus says the cabin is three decibels quieter than the 787 and the engines are half as noisy on take-off and landing as those on earlier models of the A330.Airbus says the A330neo’s new Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines burn 25 per cent less fuel per seat than the Boeing 777-200 and 14 per cent less fuel per seat than earlier A330 models.
On Virgin’s A330neo the 184 economy class seats are arranged in a 2-4-2 formation, not the standard 3-3-3 on most long-haul jets, which means that four passengers have direct aisle access and the other four only ever need to ask one person to move when they want to get up.Virgin has installed 28 extra legroom seats, somewhat optimistically called Economy Delight, which have a 34-inch pitch, the most generous legroom of any carrier in economy.
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