Comparing an Egyptair Airbus A330-200F with the first ever customer of the A330-900, delivered to TAP Air Portugal, reveals the essential physical differences between the A330ceo and neo. The larger engine nacelles, held much higher, are particularly notable, as is the revised windscreen

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This Airbus A330-800,9K-APF (c/n 1964) - seen departing Toulouse, France for the Middle East - was one of two delivered to Kuwait Airways on October 29, 2020. The airline is the first to place the shorter A330neo variant into revenue service

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The A330-800 had only eight orders at the time of writing, but Airbus believes there's a large A330-200 replacement market for the variant.
The A330-800 offers a maximum take-off weight of 242,000kg and up to 7,500nm range.
Although its fuselage is just 5m shorter than that of the Airbus A330-900, the -800 has the appearance of an altogether more compact machine. With the same weights and fuel as a -900, the -800 is able to fly considerably further

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A higher-performance A330-900 began test flying in March 2020.
Airbus announced receipt of EASA certification for the 251-tonne MTOW on October 8, 2020. This was the first flight of the revised aircraft, on February 28, 2020

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Garuda Indonesia has 12 Airbus A330-900s on order, with three delivered

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AirAsia was particularly vociferous in its call for a re-engined Airbus A330

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On May 13, 2019 Azul became the first Airbus A330neo operator in the Americas. The Brazilian airline has four A330-900s in service, of which, PR-ANZ (c/n 1876), was the first

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Thai AirAsiaX results from a joint venture between the Malaysian carrier and Asia Aviation; AirAsia has ordered 78 Airbus A330-900s, with two in service by the end of October 2020

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