Article co-authored by Matthew Fielder Qantas this week joined the growing Airbus A321XLR club, launching commercial services with its first two aircraft and becoming the first airline in the Asia-Pacific...
Wizz Air has become the first airline to operate a direct flight between London Gatwick and Medina in Saudi Arabia, with the flight taking place on 1 August as part...
Low-fare carrier Peach Aviation, a subsidiary of ANA Holdings, is to become the first Japanese operator of the Airbus A321XLR. The development was confirmed at the Paris Air Show, where...
Wizz Air has announced the launch of its first A321XLR route from London Gatwick to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The route will start in March 2025 and take seven hours to...
Wizz Air has announced that its new Airbus A321XLR (Extra Long Range) aircraft will be based at Milan Malpensa airport in June 2025 on a new route. The new route...
Low-fare airline Frontier has followed in the wake of other US airlines, Jet Blue and Spirit, after it announced it would defer its Airbus orders, converting 18 A320neo aircraft to...
Airbus’s A321XLR aircraft, powered by CFM LEAP-1A engines, has received its Type Certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), paving the way for its entry into service at...
AirAsia has unveiled plans to launch the world’s first low-fare network carrier. The announcement was made during the welcome ceremony for Airbus’s Commercial Aircraft CEO Christian Scherer, who visited AirAsia’s...
Airbus has confirmed that the entry-into-service date for the A321XLR has been pushed back even further to Q3 2024. The aircraft has already been delayed from its initially targeted entry...
Airbus has opened a new automated A321XLR equipping hangar in Hamburg. The new hangar will continue the modernisation and digitisation of Airbus’s industrial system and expand its capacity for the...