A340

I love Airbus A340's.  The first one(A340) I ever flew on was an Air Mauritius A340-200 when MK or Air Mauritius first got them in 1994. It was on a flight from Johannesburg (JNB) to Mauritius(MRU) via Harare in Zimbabwe.  I think that they must have been doing crew taining on the new aircraft type, or why did they need such an aircraft type on that flight?  The last time I flew on on an A340 was in 2006 with Swiss International Airlines.