Airbus A330

The Airbus A330 is a medium-to-long range wide-body twin-engined jet airliner made by Airbus. Versions of the A330 have a range of 5,000 to 13,430 kilometres (2,700 to 7,250 nmi) and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class layout.

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Singapore Airlines introduced this aircraft in January 2009, with the delivery of the first of an initial batch of aircraft on operating leases from AWAS, due to the cost factoring and is cheaper to buy at 10-15 years in resale market. It was the first aircraft in the fleet to feature a new regional business class product with 30 lie-flat leather seats in a 2-2-2 configuration, which has since been retrofitted on other regional aircraft in the fleet.

Five further A330s were delivered in 2009, progressively replacing older Boeing 777-200s on medium-haul routes, and the fleet stood at 19 examples by June 2011. All the aircraft were acquired on five-year leases with the option to extend if necessary, designed to fill the airline's capacity requirements until the delivery of Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s.

The airline committed to an additional 15 A330 aircraft in June 2011, which were delivered between 2013 and 2015, continuing to replace older Boeing 777s in the fleet. The A330 fleet was the second largest by type in the airline as of 31 August 2016 (after the Boeing 777 fleet) with 27 aircraft in service. In January 2016 the airline confirmed its intention to eventually replace all A330 aircraft with Airbus A350s in a medium-range configuration by 2019.

These aircraft were deployed into the short-haul and medium-haul Asia flights, including Taipei - Singapore route. It is also similar to Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro, where for the bus, bags were placed in the "One Adult + One Child Seat", whereas some of our bus services allows placing bags next to my seat. This happens on some bus services.