{"id":360958,"date":"2026-02-02T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/not-what-you-think-wizz-air-ceos-surprising-take-on-the-airbus-a321xlr\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:00:17","slug":"not-what-you-think-wizz-air-ceos-surprising-take-on-the-airbus-a321xlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=360958","title":{"rendered":"Not What You Think: Wizz Air CEO&#8217;s Surprising Take On The Airbus A321XLR"},"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> once had big plans for the Airbus A321XLR. It had ordered 47 frames, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airline-slashed-airbus-a321xlr-order\/\" >but reduced that to no more than 15 last year<\/a>; the rest were converted to standard A321neos. It has since been confirmed that it&#8217;ll have no more than <strong>11 XLRs<\/strong>. The closing of its Abu Dhabi unit was a factor, as were changes to its broader network as it seeks out what works. It has concluded that it doesn&#8217;t need many XLRs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a twist in Wizz Air&#8217;s plans for the A321XLR.<\/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":[1778,396,475,120,1265,1695,406,15477,1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-europe","category-london-gatwick-airport","category-middle-east","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-wizz-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360958","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=360958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361121,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360958\/revisions\/361121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}