Air Canada will add Spanish seaside vacation spot Palma de Mallorca to its map subsequent summer season 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 occasions 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 keeping with Airbus.
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“This revolutionary narrowbody plane unlocks new, thrilling international alternatives with its widebody vary and enhanced onboard product,” Mark Galardo, govt vp and chief industrial officer of Air Canada, stated in a press release.
Air Canada can even shift present nonstops from YUL to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS) and Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to the A321XLR in 2026. The airline at the moment flies YUL-TLS with a Boeing 787, and YUL-EDI with a Boeing 737 MAX 8, schedule knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium exhibits.
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Air Canada will outfit its A321XLRs with 14 lie-flat enterprise class seats in a 1-1 structure, and 168 economic system seats in a 3-3 structure for a complete of 182 seats. The economic system cabin consists of 36 extra-space “most well-liked” seats, its web site exhibits.
The airline additionally guarantees a “new design customary for our onboard expertise” onboard its XLRs. It didn’t present extra particulars or renderings of this new customary.
Iberia was the primary to fly the A321XLR in November 2024, and is utilizing the aircraft to increase 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 yr.
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