{"id":418352,"date":"2026-05-01T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-flight-attendant-airbus-a321xlr-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:30:18","slug":"hard-to-work-american-airlines-flight-attendant-sounds-off-on-airbus-a321xlr-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=418352","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHard To Work\u201d: American Airlines Flight Attendant Sounds Off On Airbus A321XLR Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines&#8217; <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 was meant to showcase a new era of long-haul flying. The aircraft is a narrowbody jet with transatlantic range, premium cabins, and the flexibility to open thinner international routes like New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI). Nonetheless, fresh criticism from a veteran flight attendant suggests that the aircraft may be far less impressive for the crew actually working onboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft has faced a handful of issues.<\/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":[1778,396,476,636,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418352","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=418352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418352\/revisions\/418355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}