Web StoryCommercial Aircraft A321XLR approaching the finish-line for Certification and service entry… Airbus A321XLR: The network opener that puts distant cities within reach ‘En-route’ to certification – the A321XLR embarks on first international test flights ...
Hamburg, 15 June 2022– Airbus’ firstA321XLR(Xtra Long Range) has successfully accomplished its first flight. The aircraft, MSN 11000, took off from Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport at 11:05 hrs CEST for a test flight which lasted approximately four hours and 35 minutes. The aircraft’s crew con...
This week, Airbus posted on Twitter a video of the first A321XLR leaving the painting process, which is one of the last steps in the assembly of a commercial aircraft, leading to believe that the first flight of the prototype should happen soon. With a range of 4,700 nm (8,700 km) ...
The first A321XLR (that's eXtra Long Range) was delivered to Iberia last month and after familiarization flights around Europe, the Spanish carrier operated the first long-haul flight with the plane between Madrid and Boston on November 14....
StoriesCommercial Aircraft ‘En-route’ to certification – the A321XLR embarks on first international test flights The A321XLR programme has just kicked-off an international flight-test campaign to demonstrate the systems maturity. A320 Family ...
"The A350 and Project Sunrise will make almost any city in the world just one flight away from Australia. It’s the last frontier and the final fix for the tyranny of distance that has traditionally challenged travel to Australia. The first Project Sunrise flights will be from New York and...
An Airbus A321XLR plane takes off for its first flight from the Airbus plant in Hamburg, northern Germany, on June 15, 2022. Airbushas won European certification for the latest addition to its single-aisle family of jets, the long-distance A321XLR, a spokesperson said on Friday. ...
“The selection of the A321XLR by the leadership of United Airlines is a ringing endorsement of the range, payload, and fuel efficiency that Airbus incorporated into this state-of-the-art aircraft,” said Christian Scherer, Airbus chief commercial officer. ...
Speaking during a FlightGlobal webinar, he said that American Airlines expects to take delivery of its first A321neo(XLR) in 2023 when Airbus’s new extended long-range single-aisle jetliner is expected to enter service. "We will be looking to add more nonstops from Philadelphia to secondar...
That’s when Aer Lingus launches its first nonstop flight to the country music capital from Ireland, a lesser-knownhotbedof country music fans. Ad Feedback The new flight to Nashville from Dublin is possible with a new, longer-range plane from Airbus: the A321XLR, or “Extra Long Range....