Aircraft comparison

Airbus A350-900 vs Airbus A350-1000

A Variant
Airbus A350-900 illustration

Airbus A350-900

Airbus · a variant of the Airbus A350 XWB

Still in production
2013First flight315Typical passengers15,742 kmRange

The baseline A350 XWB, with a carbon-fibre fuselage and wing and two Trent XWB-84s; it flew in 2013 and entered service in 2015.

VariantsA350-900A350-1000
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B Variant
Airbus A350-1000 illustration

Airbus A350-1000

Airbus · a variant of the Airbus A350 XWB

Still in production
2016First flight369Typical passengers16,853 kmRange

Stretched A350 (73.8 m, 7 m longer than the -900) with the more powerful Trent XWB-97 and a higher take-off weight; it entered service in 2018.

VariantsA350-900A350-1000
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Natural rivals

In a nutshell

The Airbus A350-1000 carries 54 more passengers than the Airbus A350-900: 17% more.

The Airbus A350-1000 flies 1,111 km farther non-stop than the Airbus A350-900.

The Airbus A350-900 first flew 3 years before the Airbus A350-1000.

About 617 units of the Airbus A350-900 were built: 5.1 times as many as the Airbus A350-1000.

Nose to tail, the Airbus A350-1000 is 7.0 m longer than the Airbus A350-900.

To scale

Parked side by side at the same scale: each drawing is as wide as the aircraft is long (the chosen variant or, when the model is chosen, its representative variant).

AAirbus A350-900
Airbus A350 XWB illustration
66.8 m · 219 ft
BAirbus A350-1000
Airbus A350 XWB illustration
73.8 m · 242 ft
10 m

Figure by figure

Each bar is measured against the largest in the comparison; the crown marks the leader.

Passengers and range
A315up to 440
B369up to 480
A15,742 km8,500 NM
B16,853 km9,100 NM
A17 h 26 min
B18 h 40 min
Speed and altitude
Cruise speedA Mach 0.85 · B Mach 0.85
A903 km/h488 kt
B903 km/h488 kt
A13,137 m43,100 ft
B12,634 m41,450 ft
Size
Length
A66.8 m219 ft
B73.8 m242 ft
A64.8 m212 ft
B64.8 m212 ft
Height
A17.1 m56 ft
B17.1 m56 ft
Weights
A283,000 kg623,907 lb
B322,000 kg709,888 lb
A142,400 kg313,938 lb
B155,000 kg341,716 lb
Production
Units built
A617
B120

Lifeline

From each model's first flight to the end of its production.

AAirbus A350-9002013 → today
BAirbus A350-10002016 → today
20102020

Figures for each variant (and, when the model is chosen, for its most representative variant), taken from manufacturers' published specifications and standard aviation references: every configuration changes them somewhat. A specific aircraft takes its variant's figures when its designation identifies it unambiguously, plus the data in its own record.

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