{"id":311914,"date":"2025-11-05T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airline-slashed-airbus-a321xlr-order\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:00:28","slug":"why-this-airline-already-slashed-its-airbus-a321xlr-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311914","title":{"rendered":"Why This Airline Already Slashed Its Airbus A321XLR Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255180\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wizz-air\/\"  >Wizz Air<\/a><\/span> is in the process of cutting down its order of 47 Airbus A321XLRs (Xtra Long Range) to just 10 to 15 examples. It is not reducing its orders for the A321, but is rather converting them to the shorter-ranged standard A321neo. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2045373\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wizz-air-slashes-a321xlr-orders-47-15\/\" >Simple Flying previously reported that much of the decision was driven by Wizz Air&#8217;s exit from Abu Dhabi<\/a><\/span>, shutting down Wizz Air Abu Dhabi in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A321XLR is filling the mid-sized airplane market, but the loss of Abu Dhabi, engine issues, and weight limit its usefulness to Wizz Air.<\/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":[1778,396,476,1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-wizz-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914","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=311914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311915,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914\/revisions\/311915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}