The Airbus A350-1000 is the larger of the A350's two current passenger variants, with the model clocking in at around 74 meters (242 feet) in length. The family is known in full as the A350 XWB, with the three-letter suffix standing for extra wide body, signifying the fact that the aircraft's fuselage has a greater width than Airbus' other current twin-aisle families, namely the A330 and A330neo series. Generally speaking, these aircraft have eight seats per row in economy class, with these being laid out in a 2-4-2 configuration, while most operators favor a nine-abreast 3-3-3 setup on the A350 on account of its wider fuselage.
However, certain low-cost operators like to compromise on seat width to squeeze an extra seat in on each row, with Paris Orly-based carrier French bee being one such example. French bee's Airbus A350-1000 fleet in a nutshell The Airbus A350-1000 is the largest aircraft type in French bee's small fleet, with current fleet data made available by ch-aviation showing that the budget operator has two examples of the stretched-fuselage model in its fleet. These aircraft are just three years old on average, with the first (F-HMIX), having been delivered in December of 2021.
Meanwhile, the second (F-HMIB) came onboard a year later . Want answers to more key questions in aviation? Check out the rest of our guides here ! When it was first announced that French bee would take delivery of two examples of the larger Airbus A350-1000 model, initial reports suggeste.