Airbus A350 XWB (Extra Wide Body) is still under development and will be due to appear in the market after 2013. For the fear of Boeing 787 which has received many orders so far, Airbus's answer is A350 XWB.
Still under development, so we will not see the final model for this project, but it does seem like Airbus A350 will have 3 models.
A350-800, 900 and 1000, all of them are long range (15,000km), wide body, 2 engines just like B787, B777 and A330 and the new version will use carbon fibre for reducing the body weight, still capable of carrying passengers over 300 to 400 seats. For me this new airliner will be more for the same category as B777 as long as the passengers capacity is bigger than B787, so also possible to replace B747-400 and surely will end A340.
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