Recent years have seen long-haul airlines invest more in specialized narrowbody aircraft that they can use to serve secondary intercontinental routes where demand is lower. The advent of the Airbus A321XLR has been the most obvious evidence of this, but, at Air Canada, theBoeing 737 MAX 8 is another example of a narrowbody that is used on intercontinental routes. Specifically, it will serve seven different transatlantic corridors in 2026.