This past month, the A340500 was used by just one airline: Azerbaijan Airlines from Baku to Moscow Domodedovo. With the aircraft’s retirement from this route, there are currently no more scheduled routes being flown by the aircraft. The type has never been popular because of its niche role, and it is now all but extinct in a commercial sense.

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