longest range plane
In recent years, the battle for long-range has been fought out by Airbus and Boeing, the world's primary manufacturers of commercial aircraft. The two planes that have been at the center of the struggle to date are the Airbus A340 and the Boeing 777. Airbus unveiled its long-range A340-500 in 2002. This model seats about 300 in a typical layout and has a range of 8,665 nm (16,050 km).