Overhead

Airbus

Airbus A330 (ceo)

Field marks

  1. Four-wheel main gear bogies rule out any 777 (six-wheel) at a glance
  2. Wide, round fuselage cross-section and rounded cockpit windows separate it from the flatter-sided, notch-windowed 767
  3. Engine nacelles look proportional to the wing, not oversized — the neo's nacelles are visibly fatter side by side
  4. Upturned winglet is standard on nearly the entire fleet, unlike the plain-tipped early classics long since retired

Specs

Length
63.69 m
Wingspan
60.30 m
Engines
Rolls-Royce Trent 700 / General Electric CF6-80E1 / Pratt & Whitney PW4000
Typical seats
247–335

Variant notes

  • The -300 (63.7 m) is the common long-body variant; the shorter -200 (59.0 m) is rarer and mostly flies with Gulf and Asian long-haul carriers
  • Three engine families were offered — Trent 700, CF6-80E1, PW4000 — but nacelle shape looks similar enough across all three that engine choice is not a reliable spotting cue
  • Some ceo airframes were retrofitted with sharklets under Airbus's "A330 Enhanced" package, so a winglet alone does not always mean neo

Commonly confused with