Airbus A310
Jeroen Hut
After successful sale of air bus A300, the shortened version of the
air bus A300 became, the air bus A310 brought out. It is also widebody
plane in which 250 can take people. The air bus A310 was a reasonable
success plane for the charter societies. Among others Martinair have
decreased 2 stuks, but that its meanwhile sold. THE KLM had of 1985 up
to and including 1994,10 air buses A310's in its fleet and these were
replaced boeing 767-300ER's. In an air bus A310 of the KLM one could
transport 218 passsagiers in 2 classes: business and touristclass. At
Martinair in the air bus A310 were 265 are based on used to transport
tourists to holiday destinations. The air bus A310 has a flying
distance of 4000 up to 8000 km. The air bus A310 is used also for
distant holiday destinations. At this moment air bus is generally
converted A310's to a freighter version (cargo aircraft). FedEx (from
America) have taken over all Dutch air buses A310's and these have
been converted also by directly to a cargo aircraft. At a later stage
there a new version came: A310-300 with higher range, 9000 km. The
number of passagiersstoelen remained the same as in the older version.
However, A310-300 more economical and stronger engines than the air
bus A310-200, and have smaller blended wings have air bus.