{"id":5055,"date":"2019-06-17T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:28:01","slug":"american-airlines-in-talks-for-up-to-50-airbus-a321xlr-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5055","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines in Talks for up to 50 Airbus A321XLR Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; American Airlines is edging towards a deal with Airbus to buy up to 50 newly launched A321XLR extended-range narrow-body aircraft including some converted from existing orders of other models, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbus and American Airlines declined comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people said the order, if confirmed, could be announced to coincide with the Paris Airshow, though officials from the airline were not expected to attend the show in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the people said that American Airlines was likely to include the world&#8217;s longest-range single-aisle jet in its fleet, but the timing of a decision remained unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Editing by Eric M. Johnson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AA-1.jpg?fit=640%2C421\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AA-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AA-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AA-1-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AA-1-1024x674.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines is edging towards a deal with Airbus to buy up to 50 newly launched A321XLR extended-range narrow-body aircraft including some converted from existing orders of other models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,4813,89,2203,868,1103],"tags":[238,539,47,464,118,116,160,1864,5304,447,5305,3074,1483,589,5306,3762,412,995,100,3075,1288,3309,5303,1691,1658,1187],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-a321","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-airlines","tag-american","tag-aviation","tag-body","tag-converted","tag-deal","tag-existing","tag-extended","tag-fleet","tag-jet","tag-models","tag-narrow","tag-news","tag-order","tag-paris","tag-range","tag-reuters","tag-show","tag-talk","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-xlr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","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=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}