The 2-Year Airbus Delay Forced Air Canada To Rebuild Its Entire Transatlantic Overhaul Around Toulouse

The Airbus A321XLR was supposed to arrive at Air Canada as a clean answer to one of the airline industry’s most challenging network decisions: flying long, thin transatlantic routes without committing a widebody. The aircraft promised widebody-like range with narrowbody economics, allowing Air Canada to connect secondary European cities from Canada with lower trip cost and less capacity risk.