The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced by Airbus. The A330-300, the first variant, entered service in 1994 while the slightly shorter A330-200 variant followed in 1998.

The A330 shares many underpinnings with the airframe of the early A340 variants, most notably the same fuselage and wing components, and by extension the same structure. Both airliners have fly-by-wire controls as well as a similar glass cockpit to increase the commonality. The A330 was Airbus’s first airliner to offer a choice of three engines: the General Electric CF6, Pratt & Whitney PW4000, or the Rolls-Royce Trent 700. The A330-300 has a range of 6,340 nm (11,750 km) with 277 passengers, while the shorter A330-200 can cover 7,260 nm (13,450 km) with 247 passengers. Other variants include the A330-200F dedicated freighter, the A330 MRTT military tanker, and the ACJ330 corporate jet.

Since 2018, the re-engined A330neo (new engine option) comprising A330-800/900, which entered service with the exclusive, more efficient Trent 7000 turbofan and improvements including sharklets, Earlier A330s (-200/200F/300) are now called A330ceo (current engine option).

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