On 15 January 2015, the initial A350-900 entered service with Qatar Airways, followed by the A350-1000 on 24 February 2018 with the same launch customer. The airliner has two variants: the A350-900 typically carries 300 to 350 passengers over a 15,000-kilometre (8,100-nautical-mile) range, and has a 280-tonne (617,300-pound) maximum take-off weight (MTOW) the longer A350-1000 accommodates 350 to 410 passengers and has a maximum range of 16,100 km (8,700 nmi) and a 319 t (703,200 lb) MTOW. It has a common type rating with the A330. It has a new fuselage designed around a nine-abreast economy cross-section, up from the eight-abreast A330/A340. The A350 is the first Airbus aircraft largely made of carbon fibre reinforced polymer. 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 prototype first flew on 14 June 2013 from Toulouse in France. The first A350 design proposed by Airbus in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the A330 with composite wings and new engines.Īs market support was inadequate, in 2006, Airbus switched to a clean-sheet "XWB" (eXtra Wide Body) design, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB turbofan engines. The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body jet airliner developed by Airbus. Qatar Airways was the A350-900 launch operator on 15 January 2015. For other uses, see A350 (disambiguation).
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