{"id":391458,"date":"2026-03-22T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-targets-glasgow-airbus-a321xlr\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:00:17","slug":"why-american-airlines-targets-europes-67th-busiest-airport-using-the-airbus-a321xlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=391458","title":{"rendered":"Why American Airlines Targets Europe&#8217;s 67th Busiest Airport Using The Airbus A321XLR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, American Airlines made history by <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tempting-american-airlines-launches-1st-long-haul-airbus-a321xlr-flight-this-sunday\/\" >operating its first long-haul international route with the Airbus A321XLR<\/a>. The corridor in question links its hub at John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City with<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3495734\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/edinburgh-airport-1\/\"  >Edinburgh Airport<\/a><\/span> (EDI), and marks an exciting expansion to the carrier&#8217;s intercontinental portfolio. Interestingly, there is a chance that American Airlines may yet fly the A321XLR to a second Scottish airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further Scottish growth could be on the horizon.<\/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":[1778,396,476,636,7425,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-glasgow-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391458","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=391458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391459,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391458\/revisions\/391459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}