Airbus A350-1000
The stretch — the largest twin-engine Airbus ever built · First flight 2016 · In service 2018
The A350-1000 stretches the fuselage by about seven metres to 73.79 m, adding room for 40–60 more passengers. To lift the extra weight it gets the more powerful Trent XWB-97 engine, a modified wing trailing edge and six-wheel main landing-gear bogies — the quickest way to tell it apart from a -900 on the ground.
It first flew on 24 November 2016 and entered service with Qatar Airways in February 2018. Operators now include British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Virgin Atlantic, Japan Airlines, Etihad, Qantas — which ordered it for its non-stop Sydney–London "Project Sunrise" — and, since November 2026, Lufthansa.
Lufthansa took delivery of its first A350-1000, D-AIFA "Deutschland", on 10 November 2026 — the 700th Airbus delivered to the Lufthansa Group. It arrived in the airline's 1926–2026 centennial livery with 300 seats in the new Allegris cabins, and starts scheduled flights from Munich to Tokyo-Haneda on 3 December 2026. Fifteen more are on order through 2030.
