Overhead

Airbus

Airbus A330 (ceo)

Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330-300 taxiing in side profile, showing its classic upturned wingtip blades and underwing engines.
© Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0

From below

The view you'll actually get from high overhead.

Qatar Airways Airbus A330-300 seen directly from below, showing the underside outline, engine pods, and upturned wingtip blades.
© David Ingham · CC BY-SA 2.0

Field marks

  1. Four wheels on each main landing-gear leg rule out any 777 (six wheels) at a glance
  2. Wide, round body cross-section and rounded cockpit windows separate it from the flatter-sided, notch-windowed 767
  3. Engine pods look proportional to the wing, not oversized — the neo's pods are visibly fatter side by side
  4. Upturned wingtip blade 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

Size and shape, to scale

Photos can't hold a consistent scale from shot to shot — these silhouettes are all drawn at the same 10 px = 1 m scale, so the proportions here are trustworthy even though the photos above aren't.

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 the engine pods look similar enough across all three that engine choice is not a reliable spotting cue
  • Some ceo airframes were retrofitted with upturned wingtip blades under Airbus's "A330 Enhanced" package, so a blade tip alone does not always mean neo

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