Air Canada will add Spanish seaside vacation spot Palma de Mallorca to its map subsequent summer time with the longer-range Airbus A321XLRs.
The Star Alliance service will join its hub at Montreal-Trudeau Worldwide Airport (YUL) to Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI) 4 instances per week starting June 17, 2026, Air Canada stated Tuesday. Flights will function eastbound on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and westbound on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The brand new route is feasible with the extra vary of the single-aisle A321XLR. The aircraft can fly roughly 5,400 miles, or about 800 miles additional than the favored A321neo, in response to Airbus.
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“This revolutionary narrowbody plane unlocks new, thrilling world alternatives with its widebody vary and enhanced onboard product,” Mark Galardo, government vp and chief business officer of Air Canada, stated in a press release.
Air Canada may even shift current nonstops from YUL to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS) and Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to the A321XLR in 2026. The airline at present flies YUL-TLS with a Boeing 787, and YUL-EDI with a Boeing 737 MAX 8, schedule knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium reveals.
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Air Canada will outfit its A321XLRs with 14 lie-flat enterprise class seats in a 1-1 format, and 168 economic system seats in a 3-3 format for a complete of 182 seats. The economic system cabin consists of 36 extra-space “most well-liked” seats, its web site reveals.
The airline additionally guarantees a “new design commonplace for our onboard expertise” onboard its XLRs. It didn’t present further particulars or renderings of this new commonplace.
Iberia was the primary to fly the A321XLR in November 2024, and is utilizing the aircraft to broaden service to North America. Aer Lingus and Qantas Airways have since taken supply of the aircraft with different carriers, together with American Airways and United Airways, awaiting for theirs.
Air Canada expects its first of 30 A321XLRs within the first quarter of 2026. The airline is scheduled to take supply of 10 XLRs that 12 months.
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