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A333In service

How the A330-300 fits into the A330 story

A330-300 is the representative branch of the Airbus A330 family, capturing the higher-capacity branch that became the family’s broadest passenger baseline.

This page isolates the A330-300 branch of the Airbus A330 family, focusing on the engines, service entry, seating, range, and mission role that justify a dedicated variant page while keeping the family history on the canonical parent URL.

Service entry

1994

Seating

277 to 335

Range

6,350 nm

Variant history

Why it branches from the family

The A330-300 is treated as the representative branch because it captures the higher-capacity branch that became the family’s broadest passenger baseline.

Variant pages stay intentionally narrower than the family page so differences in cabin, engines, mission, and market role remain clear without duplicating the full program history.

Fact rows

Reference snapshot

ICAO designator
A333
Designator references
Engines
CF6, Trent 700, or PW4000
Type data
Service entry
1994
Operator records
Typical seating
277 to 335
Operator layouts
Range
6,350 nm
Planning data

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