{"id":437415,"date":"2026-05-25T03:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/saudia-first-airbus-a321xlr-delivery\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:49:48","slug":"saudia-takes-delivery-of-first-a321xlr-with-biggest-24-suite-business-cabin-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=437415","title":{"rendered":"Saudia Takes Delivery Of First A321XLR With Biggest 24-Suite Business Cabin Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254840\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/saudia\/\"  >Saudia<\/a><\/span> has taken delivery of its first <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739508\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus-a321xlr\/\"  >Airbus A321XLR<\/a><\/span>, accepting the plane during a handover ceremony at Airbus&#8217; facility in Toulouse today (May 24). This makes the Saudi flag carrier the first operator of the extra-long-range narrowbody in the Middle East, joining an exclusive but growing group of airlines to fly the A321XLR since its commercial debut with Iberia more than 18 months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline&#8217;s 144-seater A321XLR offers the most business class capacity of any XLR today.<\/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":[426,1778,396,1020,988,1708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-delivery","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437415","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=437415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437416,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437415\/revisions\/437416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}