{"id":18626,"date":"2026-06-03T18:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/18626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:56:06","slug":"air-canada-still-sees-friction-in-system-over-delayed-airbus-jet-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/18626\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada still sees \u2018friction in system\u2019 over delayed Airbus jet deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ground crew service an Air Canada passenger plane at the domestic terminal of Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C. on May 1.Chris Helgren\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Air Canada AC-T<\/a> still sees \u201cfriction in the system\u201d regarding delays in the deliveries of Airbus A321XLR jets, the airline\u2019s COO said on Wednesday, as the carrier starts flights this month with the longer-range, single-aisle jet.<\/p>\n

Boeing and Airbus are trying to ramp up production of more fuel-efficient new aircraft, but airlines globally face delivery delays on multiple models, often due to supply-chain challenges and labour shortages.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the XLR program, unfortunately, we have been on the receiving end of several delays in the program, and these aircraft are, you know, the better part of two years late from what we originally anticipated when we made the order,\u201d Air Canada\u2019s executive vice president and chief operations officer, Mark Nasr, said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not specific to just anyone, but there still is friction in the system and we\u2019ve had to adopt our business to be candidly much more flexible,\u201d said Nasr, who spoke on the sidelines of an event in Montreal to welcome the model.<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s largest carrier plans to use the XLR on routes like Toulouse and Copenhagen. Demand for European travel remains strong for North American legacy carriers despite rising jet fuel prices due to the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Air Canada is also seeing some return of Canadians flying to the United States for leisure purposes, after such travel softened last year and earlier in 2026 due to trade tensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s increasing at a slow pace, but it\u2019s increasing,\u201d added Alexandre Lefevre, VP network planning and global sales at the carrier.<\/p>\n

Nasr said Air Canada, which uses its smaller A220 jets to serve several markets in the United States, is waiting to see technical specifications from Airbus on a proposed stretched version of the aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the specs on the aircraft are finalized, we will study them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the questions we\u2019ll have to examine is the range of the aircraft, and this is why the technical specs end up being very important,\u201d he added. \u201cSo we really need the full package of specs to be able to appropriately study it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ground crew service an Air Canada passenger plane at the domestic terminal of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[90,2191,2181,2192,2174,2172,2193,1256,2171,2186,2187,2183,2173,2170,74,1425,206,2185,2180,2204,2175,2176,587,2182,696,155,2194,2178,2199,2200,2202,2197,2201,2195,2198,2177,2189,2190,802,2188,2196,893,670,305,2184,2179,831,2203],"class_list":["post-18626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-airbus","tag-airbus","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}