{"id":279060,"date":"2019-06-19T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279060"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:46:49","slug":"airasia-to-convert-253-orders-for-airbus-a320neo-planes-to-larger-a321neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-to-convert-253-orders-for-airbus-a320neo-planes-to-larger-a321neo\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia to convert 253 orders for Airbus A320neo planes to larger A321neo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia Group has decided to convert 253 orders for Airbus\u2019 A320neo planes to the larger A321neo model, making AirAsia the world\u2019s largest customer for the A321neo, but is not yet ready to order the new longer-range version. \u201cThe change will enable the airline to offer higher capacity in response to ongoing strong demand across its network,\u201d Airbus said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters last month reported the Malaysian low-cost carrier was in negotiations to buy the new longer-range version of the A321 passenger jet, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Airbus launched the A321XLR, which has a range of up to 4,700 nautical miles, at the Paris Airshow on Monday. Asked on the sidelines of the show about the A321XLR, AirAsia Executive Chairman Kamarudin Meranun said that \u201cnegotiations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia Group has decided to convert 253 orders for Airbus\u2019 A320neo planes to the larger A321neo model, making AirAsia the world\u2019s largest customer for the A321neo, but is not yet ready to order the new longer-range version. \u201cThe change will enable the airline to offer higher capacity in response to ongoing strong demand across its network,\u201d Airbus said in a statement on Tuesday. Reuters last month reported the Malaysian low-cost carrier was in negotiations to buy the new longer-range version of the A321 passenger jet, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Airbus launched the A321XLR, which has a range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}