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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

First of type visit!

The first visit by the largest of the single aisle Airbus family has finally made an appearance in New Zealand with Philippine Airlines operating Airbus A321-231(SL) RP-C9905 to Auckland as PR218 arriving 16 January from Davao and Cairns and departing as PR219 for Cairns and Manila. The flight would normally originate at Manila however there have been three recent occasions where it has started from Davao. 

The A321 fleet are fitted with 199 passenger seats configured with 12 business class, 18 premium economy (standard economy seats with greater pitch) and 169 economy seats. 

Daniel Talbot photo
It seems another A321 is inbound today, 17 January, with RP-C9915 on the cards to arrive as PR218 again from Davao and Cairns.

The Airbus A321 was first flown in 1993 and entered service the following year with Lufthansa. As at the end of 2016 Airbus had delivered 1433 of the type with another 308 of the type on order which includes 5 A321NEO with the first due for delivery later this year.

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