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Widebody airliners

Two aisles, two decks sometimes, and the backbone of long-haul travel.

Aircraft here12
Longest76.72 m
Combined built9,682
First flights1969–2020
What it means

The category, explained

A widebody is any airliner with two aisles, a fuselage wide enough that passengers walk down two corridors instead of one, typically 5 to 6.5 metres across. The format was invented by the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A300 around 1970, and it made mass long-haul travel possible.

Widebodies dominate the record boards for a simple reason: length and wingspan scale with the payload they carry across oceans. Every aircraft here carries a two-aisle cabin, and between them they fly the great majority of the world's intercontinental routes.

The aircraft

Every widebody airliner here

Silhouettes are sized by real wingspan, bigger aircraft draw bigger.

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Boeing 777X

Boeing · In certification, deliveries expected 2027

Length (777-9)76.72 m
Wingspan (extended)71.75 m
Wingspan (folded)64.85 m
Height19.68 m
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Boeing 767

Boeing · In production (freighter/tanker)

Length (767-400ER)61.37 m
Wingspan (-400ER)51.92 m
Height16.87 m
MTOW (-400ER)204,116 kg
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Side by side

Ranked by length

AircraftLengthWingspanFirst flightStatus
Boeing 777X76.72 m71.75 m2020In certification, deliveries expected 2027
Boeing 74776.25 m68.40 m1969Out of production (2023), in service
Airbus A34075.36 m63.45 m1991Out of production (2011), in service
Boeing 77773.86 m64.80 m1994In production (777X in certification)
Airbus A35073.79 m64.75 m2013In production
Airbus A38072.72 m79.75 m2005Out of production (2021), in service
Boeing 787 Dreamliner68.28 m60.12 m2009In production
Ilyushin Il-9663.94 m60.11 m1988In limited service
Airbus A33063.66 m64.00 m1992In production (A330neo)
Boeing 76761.37 m51.92 m1981In production (freighter/tanker)
Ilyushin Il-8659.54 m48.06 m1976Retired
Airbus A30054.08 m44.84 m1972Out of production (2007), in service