{"id":381592,"date":"2026-03-07T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tempting-american-airlines-launches-1st-long-haul-airbus-a321xlr-flight-this-sunday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:00:18","slug":"tempting-american-airlines-launches-1st-airbus-a321xlr-long-haul-flight-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=381592","title":{"rendered":"Tempting? American Airlines Launches 1st Airbus A321XLR Long-Haul Flight This Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That did not take long. After entering commercial service on December 15, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines&#8217;<\/a><\/span> first long-haul route on the Airbus A321XLR will begin this weekend. On March 8, the variant will take off from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256690\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/new-york-jfk\/\"  >New York JFK<\/a><\/span><strong> to Edinburgh<\/strong>. It is the <strong>first transatlantic XLR route for any North American carrier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch is historic in multiple ways. Discover them here!<\/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":[1778,396,475,636,406,15477,701,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-american-airlines","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381592","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=381592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381593,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381592\/revisions\/381593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}