{"id":3668,"date":"2019-02-03T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:25:24","slug":"american-airlines-takes-delivery-of-its-first-a321neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3668","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Takes Delivery of its First A321neo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PITTSBURGH \u2014 After an 8 1\/2-hour nonstop journey from Hamburg, Germany (XFW), the newest member of the American Airlines fleet has landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N400AN, American\u2019s first Airbus A321neo, touched down at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) shortly before noon Feb. 1. After clearing customs, the plane will head to American\u2019s Base Maintenance facility at PIT, where it will spend a couple of weeks undergoing the usual extensive acceptance checks conducted whenever the airline adds a new aircraft type to its fleet. The Tech Ops \u2013 PIT team will install ViaSat satellite Wi-Fi, conduct general ops checks and add interior and exterior placards as they customize the aircraft for American. After that, it will visit other American bases before entering service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The A321neo is scheduled to begin flying customers April 2 between Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) in Arizona and Orlando International Airport (MCO) in Florida. Once the company takes more deliveries, additional routes will include PHX\u2013Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) in Alaska over the summer, and PHX and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Hawaii later this year as the A321neo begins to replace retiring Boeing 757s. The A321 is already a versatile aircraft, and the A321neo (which stands for \u201cnew engine option\u201d) adds about 400 nautical miles in range thanks to improved fuel burn from the new engines, putting additional destinations within reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American has ordered 100 of these jets with deliveries running over the next several years. They seat 196 customers and, in addition to the fast Wi-Fi, include power at every seat and free wireless entertainment to each customer\u2019s own device including free live television. Additionally, American is the launch customer for Airbus\u2019 new XL overhead bins which significantly increase capacity. The A321neo is American\u2019s first aircraft delivered with these bins and the company will begin retrofitting existing A321s with this same bin later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American is taking the \u201cCabin Flex,\u201d or \u201cNX,\u201d option of the A321neo, which has a new door configuration. The A321neo is part of the order for 460 aircraft placed by American in 2011, which also included 100 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The aircraft from that order have transformed American\u2019s fleet into the youngest among U.S. network airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After an 8 1\/2-hour nonstop journey from Hamburg, Germany (XFW), the newest member of the American Airlines fleet has landed. N400AN, American\u2019s first Airbus A321neo, touched down at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) shortly before noon Feb. 1. After clearing customs, the plane will head to American\u2019s Base Maintenance facility at PIT,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,2203,868,1103],"tags":[45,376,238,47,118,92,847,116,3282,2813,3280,41,1195,1483,3284,571,2957,396,428,199,250,2811,46,276,412,1890,754,2047,755,3283,3281],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-45","tag-376","tag-a321","tag-airbus","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-alaska","tag-american","tag-anchorage","tag-angeles","tag-bases","tag-boeing","tag-cabin","tag-fleet","tag-flex","tag-germany","tag-hamburg","tag-harbor","tag-hawaii","tag-international","tag-lax","tag-los","tag-max","tag-neo","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-phoenix","tag-pittsburgh","tag-sky","tag-stevens","tag-ted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}