Wizz Air may conquer subcontinent with new Airbus jet
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Hungary-based low-cost airline Wizz Air has already ordered many of Airbus’ possible new best-selling jet type, the A321XLR. The range of the new aircraft grew to 11 hours, which opens up American, African and Asian destinations even from Budapest. Where will Wizz Air go?
New Airbus aircraft capable of 11-hour-long journeys
According to Bloomberg, the new jet type will win certification as soon as this month, and Airbus already has several orders for hundreds of new A321XLR aircraft. Carriers plan to serve new destinations with the aircraft in America, Africa and Asia.
Airbus’s A321 became a bestseller since the company could eke out more range. The French could “pair the economic benefits of a narrowbody airliner with the reach and capacity approaching a widebody jet,” the news outlet wrote. Putting the XLRs into service was delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the flammability problems with its extra fuel tank.
The A321XLR “will effectively double the range from the original model that entered service at the start of 1994. Airbus plans to showcase the plane, for which it has more than 550 orders, at the Farnborough Air Show starting next week”, Bloomberg added. The rest of the article is hidden behind a paywall, but portfolio.hu summed up what we should know about the new jet type and Wizz Air.
