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It is the first Airbus wide-body airliner to reach 1,000 deliveries, and the fourth wide-body to achieve the milestone after the Boeing 747, 767 and 777. On 19 July 2013, Airbus delivered the 1000th A330 to Cathay Pacific. Air Inter became the first operator of the A330, putting the aircraft into service on 17 January 1994 between Orly Airport, Paris, and Marseille. The flight lasted five hours and fifteen minutes during which speed, height, and other flight configurations were tested. Weighing 181,840 kg (401,000 lb), including 20,980 kg (46,300 lb) of test equipment, the A330 became the biggest twin-jet to have flown, until the first flight of the Boeing 777. The first completed A330 was rolled out on 14 October 1992, with the maiden flight following on 2 November. The A330 was Airbus’s first airliner that offered a choice of three engine types: General Electric CF6, Pratt & Whitney PW4000, and Rolls-Royce Trent 700. In June 1987, after receiving orders from various customers, Airbus launched the A330 and A340. Instead of a conventional control yoke, the flight deck features side-stick controls, six main displays, and the Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS), which covers navigation and flight displays, as well as the Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitor (ECAM). The A330 shares the same glass cockpit flight deck layout as the A320 and A340, featuring electronic instrument displays rather than mechanical gauges. Both airliners incorporated fly-by-wire flight control technology, first introduced on an Airbus aircraft with the A320.
The A330 was developed in parallel with the four-engine A340, which shared many common airframe components but differed in number of engines. The A330’s origin dates to the mid-1970s as one of several conceived derivatives of Airbus’s first airliner, the A300. Versions of the A330 have a range of 5,000 to 13,430 kilometres (2,700 to 7,250 nmi 3,110 to 8,350 mi) and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class layout or carry 70 tonnes (154,000 lb) of cargo. Each wing also has a 2.74 m (8.99 ft) tall winglet instead of the wingtip fences found on earlier Airbus aircraft.