{"id":6188,"date":"2019-09-28T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T23:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2019-09-28T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:20:25","slug":"air-france-takes-delivery-of-its-first-a350-xwb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6188","title":{"rendered":"Air France Takes Delivery of its First A350 XWB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Air France has taken delivery of its first\u00a0A350-900, the world\u2019s most efficient all new design wide-body aircraft. The first jet out of a total order of 28 was handed over to Anne Rigail, Air France Chief Executive Officer and Benjamin Smith, Air France-KLM Group Chief Executive Officer, by Airbus Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer during a ceremony held in Toulouse, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air France will deploy the A350-900 fleet on its transatlantic and Asia routes. The Xtra WideBody aircraft features a comfortable three-class layout with 324 seats including 34 full-flat business, 24 premium economy and 266 economy class seats. Fully in line with Air France\u2019s commitment to the environment, the all-new A350-900 will provide a 25% reduction in fuel burn and CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions. Additionally, the aircraft\u2019s delivery flight from Toulouse to Paris will be powered with a blend of conventional and synthetic biofuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air France operates an Airbus fleet of 143 aircraft. It includes 114 single-aisle and 29 wide-body planes. The airline recently opted to purchase Airbus\u2019 newest aircraft family member, the A220, which will join the fleet over the next years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The A350 XWB offers by design unrivalled operational flexibility and efficiency for all market segments – up to ultra-long haul (17,900km). Its\u00a0Airspace\u00a0by Airbus cabin is the quietest of any twin-aisle aircraft and offers passengers and crews the most modern in-flight flying experience.\u00a0The aircraft features the latest aerodynamic design, a carbon fibre fuselage and wings, plus new fuel-efficient Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines.\u00a0 Together, these latest technologies result in 25% lower operating costs, as well as 25% reduction\u00a0in fuel\u00a0burn and\u00a0CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions compared with previous-generation competing aircraft \u2013 demonstrating Airbus\u2019 commitment to minimise its\u00a0environmental\u00a0impact while remaining at the cutting edge of air travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of August 2019, the A350 XWB Family had received 913 firm orders from 51 customers worldwide, making it one of the most successful wide-body aircraft ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air France has taken delivery of its first A350-900, the world\u2019s most efficient all new design wide-body aircraft. The first jet out of a total order of 28 was handed over to Anne Rigail, Air France Chief Executive Officer and Benjamin Smith, Air France-KLM Group Chief Executive Officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,4813,89,5637,5992,5878,2203,4059,5676,1397,868,1103],"tags":[1262,49,5250,539,47,464,420,2172,2126,160,4757,1864,7139,988,1195,3427,3078,1216,3157,851,5760,1782,7138,1350,595,335,4864,1907,4458,1671,4050,1483,207,1757,2985,5279,745,130,4227,412,2898,995,594,5136,2504,719,2505,7137,569,2970,3131,2754,1017,1761,1691,1658,1018,1863,1489,1019],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-economic-news","category-environmental-news","category-finance-news","category-green-energy-news","category-international-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-a220","tag-a350","tag-aerodynamic","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airspace","tag-asia","tag-aviation","tag-biofuel","tag-body","tag-burn-co2-emissions","tag-business","tag-cabin","tag-carbon","tag-ceremony","tag-chief","tag-christian","tag-class","tag-conventional","tag-delivery","tag-deploy","tag-design","tag-economy","tag-engine","tag-environment","tag-executive","tag-fibre","tag-first","tag-flat","tag-fleet","tag-france","tag-fuel","tag-full","tag-fuselage","tag-group","tag-klm","tag-layout","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-order","tag-premium","tag-reduction","tag-rolls","tag-routes","tag-royce","tag-scherer","tag-seats","tag-synthetic","tag-take","tag-three","tag-toulouse","tag-transatlantic","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-trent","tag-wide","tag-wings","tag-xwb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}