Dream Liner
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Airbus is not looking to extend its potential A330 improvement measures to new engines, but is eager to broaden the twinjet's appeal and lengthen its production life ahead of A350 XWB development. Airbus said recently that it’s pondering sharklet wingtips for the A330, a modification tested on the A320 before Airbus chose to consolidate fuel-burn improvement by re-engining it as the A320neo. The company added that, for the time being, it’s not thinking of new engines on the A330, believing that developing an A330neo would encroach on the 250-seat market of the A350-800.