{"id":264135,"date":"2025-08-09T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qantas-a321xlr-longest-flight-since-delivery\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:52:11","slug":"5-hours-qantas-airbus-a321xlr-operates-longest-flight-since-its-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264135","title":{"rendered":"5 Hours: Qantas&#8217; Airbus A321XLR Operates Longest Flight Since Its Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qantas\/\"  >Qantas<\/a><\/span> has finally taken its newest aircraft <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258922\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/transcontinental\/\"  >transcontinental<\/a><\/span>. The airline, which received it&#8217;s first gamechanging <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739508\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus-a321xlr\/\"  >Airbus A321XLR<\/a><\/span> on July 2, has quietly been operating the aircraft primarily between Sydney and Melbourne for most of July, however on August 8, the plane took off from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257232\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sydney-airport\/\"  >Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport<\/a><\/span> (SYD), destined for it&#8217;s longest commerical flight since delivery, across the countries &#8216;red center&#8217;, all the way to Perth International Airport (PER), in Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unassuming plane quietly makes history, soaring across vast distances and capturing the imagination of aviation enthusiasts.<\/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":[426,1778,396,476,273,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-qantas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264135","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=264135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264136,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264135\/revisions\/264136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}