A new Airbus A321...

[Richard Portier]

...A new Airbus A321 XLR has just been presented at the Paris Le Bourget Air Show.

180/200 Pax, it can fly for about ten hours with an additional tank (+-4600miles).

Richard

[Sabine Meier]

2 minutes ago, Richard Portier said:

...A new Airbus A321 XLR has just been presented at the Paris Le Bourget Air Show.

180/200 Pax, it can fly for about ten hours with an additional tank (+-4600miles).

Richard

How about putting 240 passengers in that aircraft as cebu airlines have annouced that they will be doing that in the xlr type. But so far no commercially Operating.

[Richard Portier]

The A321 XLR will be or would be available from 2023...From "La Tribune", a protocol agreement appears to have been signed with Air Lease Corporation (ALC) for the purchase of 27 A321 XLRs, including 50 A220-300s and 23 A321Neos.

Richard

[Frederic Nadot]

The A321 XLR is a NEO with sharklets. Don't expect to have it on your HDD before months years.

[Robert Sutherland]

3 hours ago, Frederic Nadot said:

The A321 XLR is a NEO with sharklets. Don't expect to have it on your HDD before months years.

Not quite! 

The A321LR was basically the A321NEO but with extra centre fuel tanks and an MTOW of 97 tonnes. 

The A321XLR is an A321LR with those centre tanks, a bigger rear fuel tank and an MTOW of 101 tonnes. 

But yeah, we won't see it in sim shape for some time! 

[Arto E.P. Karhu]

1 hour ago, Robert Sutherland said:

The A321LR was basically the A321NEO but with extra centre fuel tanks and an MTOW of 97 tonnes. 

The A321XLR is an A321LR with those centre tanks, a bigger rear fuel tank and an MTOW of 101 tonnes. 

In many earlier variants of the A320 series, "Additional Fuel Tanks" can be installed into the rear cargo compartment. One or two of these can be found in 'regular', pre-NEO A321s as well. They take up loading positions 31 and 32 in the rear cargo hold, and can be removed or re-installed, as I've been told, "with relative ease" if required - though I'm not aware of any instance of this being done. All kinds of loading restrictions come as a result of hauling these, essentially, containers with tons of flammable liquid around, so there can be some incentives to do so in some specific cases.

In A321LR, three such tanks are used, taking up all three loading positions of CPT 3, only leaving two additional sections free into the rear hold. (I don't even want to know what kind of W&B issues three of these tanks potentially cause...)

In A321XLR, it appears that Airbus replaces these removable extra tanks with permanent fuel tank that apparently is more or less integral part of the airplane. It takes up some space off the rear hold, but supposedly less than three, well, less integrated Additional Fuel Tanks do in LR, while still having more fuel in it. They also have added the option to throw in a single removable Additional Fuel Tank into the forward hold, if so desired.