{"id":374093,"date":"2026-02-23T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-airlines-one-transatlantic-airbus-a321xlr-route-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:30:17","slug":"confirmed-us-airlines-only-have-1-transatlantic-a321xlr-route-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=374093","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: US Airlines Only Have 1 Transatlantic A321XLR Route In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there has generally been a lot of excitement surrounding the increased rollout of the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> A321XLR, few markets offer the type quite so many opportunities as the transatlantic corridor. The long-range narrowbody is perfect for long, thin routes between secondary cities in Europe and North America that have a good degree of demand, but can&#8217;t justify a widebody&#8217;s capacity. This is where the A321XLR is the perfect compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The type is seeing a gradual rollout in the US, with more of a domestic focus in its early storage.<\/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":[1778,396,636,15477,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374093","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=374093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374094,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374093\/revisions\/374094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}