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2025 fuel burnAirbus A330-200
The A330-200 is the shorter A330 and has the longer published range, about 7,250 nautical miles against 6,350 for the A330-300. Hawaiian and Delta fly the ones in this data.
- 1,734gallons per airborne hour
- 76.1seat-miles per gallon
- 261seats per flight on average
- 11,398gallons burned per flight
What the figures say
Airbus A330-200 ranks 11 of 25 types for seat-miles per gallon in 2025, at 76.1. The Boeing 737-800, the most common type in the table, flew 79.1, so a gallon on the Airbus A330-200 carried a seat 3.8% less far. Over 1,000 miles, one seat on this type accounts for about 128 kg of CO2 from the fuel burned.
US airlines burned 260 million gallons on the Airbus A330-200 in 2025, 1.4% of the fuel burned on all scheduled passenger flying, over 150 thousand airborne hours and 23 thousand departures. The average flight spent 6.6 hours in the air and burned 11,398 gallons.
Since 2000, when it was first flown in volume, the type's figure has risen from 6.5 to 76.1 seat-miles per gallon (1078%). The average flight got shorter, from 7.6 to 6.6 hours in the air, which tends to raise fuel burn per seat-mile, because take-off and climb take a larger share of the fuel on a short flight. Fuel per airborne hour fell 92%, from 20,609 to 1,734 gallons.
Airlines get different results from the same aircraft. Hawaiian Airlines flew 87.1 seat-miles per gallon on it and Delta Air Lines 57.0, a gap of 53%. The seat count explains most of it: Hawaiian Airlines put 278 seats on each flight against 222 at Delta Air Lines. Flight length differs too, at 6.3 hours in the air per flight for Hawaiian Airlines and 8.0 for Delta Air Lines. Longer flights normally burn less fuel per seat-mile, so the longer flights at Delta Air Lines should have helped it, not hurt it. What's left comes from taxi and holding time, weight, engines, how each airline operates and how it allocates fuel to types when it reports, and the filings can't separate those.
What one seat costs the climate
CO2 for one seat on an Airbus A330-200, from the fuel burned, at the 2025 average.
- 64 kgover 500 miles
- 128 kgover 1,000 miles
- 256 kgover 2,000 miles
Who flies it, and how they burn
Airbus A330-200 by airline, 2025
| Airline | Fuel (million gallons) | Gallons per airborne hour | Seats per flight | Hours per flight | Seat-miles per gallon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlines | 161 | 1,607 | 278 | 6.3 | 87.1 |
| Delta Air Lines | 92 | 1,999 | 222 | 8.0 | 57.0 |
Similar-sized aircraft
These types carry within about 25 seats of the Airbus A330-200, so they compete for the same routes.
How to read this. Fuel is what airlines issued to the type in 2025, as filed with the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, counted only for the hours spent on scheduled passenger flights and divided by the hours in the air. It includes fuel burned taxiing and holding, so it's higher than the cruise figure in a manual. CO2 is 9.75 kg per gallon of jet fuel.
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Nearby in fuel efficiency
Types on either side of this one in the seat-miles per gallon table, regardless of size:
Aircraft references
Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Schedule T-2 fuel and airborne hours; US EPA jet-fuel CO2 factor. See the methodology and flight-hour definitions.
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