{"id":246607,"date":"2025-07-05T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-asia-70-a321xlrs-1-stop-flights-north-america\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:20:37","slug":"12-25-billion-airasia-orders-70-a321xlrs-eyes-1-stop-flights-to-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=246607","title":{"rendered":"$12.25 billion: AirAsia Orders 70 A321XLRs &amp; Eyes 1-Stop Flights To North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256465\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airasia\/\"  >AirAsia<\/a><\/span> has announced that it will order 50 Airbus A321XLR aircraft, with conversion rights for 20 additional planes. This is part of a move by one of Asia&#8217;s most prolific low-cost carriers, with plans to expand its long-haul international network. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/news\/155725-airasia-orders-5020-a321-200nyxlrs-nears-next-order\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >ch-aviation<\/a>, this is likely to be the first of two AirAsia orders for new aircraft, with a contract for up to 150 additional aircraft expected within the next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using virtual hubs, the carrier hopes to resume one-stop itineraries to Europe, Africa, and North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[529,1778,396,6318,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airasia","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-order","category-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246608,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246607\/revisions\/246608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}