{"id":102059,"date":"2020-10-26T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=102059"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:06:47","slug":"air-transat-makes-a-record-flight-of-7600km-with-airbus-a321lr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2020\/10\/air-transat-makes-a-record-flight-of-7600km-with-airbus-a321lr.html","title":{"rendered":"Air Transat makes a record flight of 7,600km with Airbus A321LR."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday morning, an <strong>Air Transat A321LR<\/strong> landed in Athens (Greece) after crossing the Atlantic and making a record flight of 7,600 km from the city of Montreal (Canada).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/en\/2020\/10\/southwest-airlines-considering-buying-airbus-a220-aircraft.html\">Southwest Airlines considering buying Airbus A220 aircraft.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flight TS690 took off from Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport at 5:25pm on Sunday, and after an 8 hour 20 minute flight landed at the Greek capital&#8217;s airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The A321LR has lived up to its name like never before. Here is the unmatched long-range route opener offers true transatlantic capabilities with a single-aisle aircraft,&#8221; wrote Airbus in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations\/F\u00e9licitations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/airtransat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AirTransat<\/a>!<br>With a record 7,600km flight between Montreal \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 &amp; Athens \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/A321LR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#A321LR<\/a> has lived up to its name like never before. <br>\u2b07\ufe0fHere is the unrivalled long-range route opener offering true transatlantic capabilities w\/ a single aisle aircraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wC3Obv5nEW\">pic.twitter.com\/wC3Obv5nEW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Airbus (@Airbus) 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