Closure of Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has left the airline with few routes that require the XLR’s additional range, while some of the new aircraft are already flying short European sectors

Vietnamese carrier plans to add 20 A220s and 30 A321-family aircraft, including the A321XLR, with deliveries starting in 2029

New narrowbody will fly from Toronto to Oslo and Shannon and operate a fifth daily frequency to London Heathrow

Philadelphia-Vienna will stretch the long-range narrowbody to about 3,750 nautical miles as U.S. airlines increasingly use the type to open transatlantic markets

Sixteen aircraft arriving from 2028 will introduce a premium cabin designed for longer domestic and international routes

Carrier says the Airbus narrowbody cannot perform some missions originally presented to it, but existing A321LR and XLR operations suggest the issue is more nuanced than the headline 4,700-nm figure

New narrowbody will connect the United States with Luxembourg, Toulouse, Ibiza, Valencia and Marseille in 2027

The group's expansion relies on Airbus, Boeing and Embraer aircraft, trading operational simplicity for network optimization

Airline plans to deploy the long-range narrowbody on transatlantic routes starting with Montreal-Toulouse service

Carrier has received two aircraft so far and expects a fleet of 30 long-range narrowbodies