Airbus A350
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The Airbus A350 is a modern jet airplane designed to carry hundreds of passengers on very long international flights. It represents Airbus's latest technology in this category and has been in use since 2013, making it an important option for airlines flying long distances around the world.
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The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine airliner developed and produced by Airbus.
The initial A350 design, which was proposed in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the Airbus A330 with composite wings, advanced winglets, and new efficient engines. Due to inadequate market support, Airbus switched in 2006 to a clean-sheet extra wide body (XWB) design, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent XWB high bypass turbofan engines. The prototype first flew on 14 June 2013 from Toulouse, France. 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.