Canada's Air Transat to debut A321neo(LR) ops in 2Q19

Air Transat (TS, Montréal Trudeau) has outlined its proposed A321neo(LR) operational plans with flights set to commence from May 2019 onwards.

The Canadian leisure specialist is expecting to lease a total of fifteen A321neo(LR)s from AerCap all of which will be configured with 12 seats in premium economy and 187 in economy class.

ch-aviation analysis of schedule data shows Air Transat will deploy the longhaul-capable jets onto the following routes:

From Montréal Trudeau:
Basle/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH (2x weekly starting June 17);
London Gatwick (weekly starting June 19);
Lisbon (weekly starting May 3);
Marseilles (weekly starting May 6);
Nice (3x weekly starting May 2);
Nantes (weekly starting May 6);
Porto (3x weekly starting May 4);
Québec (2x weekly starting May 3).

From Québec:
Paris CDG (3x weekly starting May 3);
Cancún (weekly starting May 4);
Punta Cana (weekly starting May 5).



Air Transat is also expecting to add two A321neo. Collectively, the seventeen A321neo variants will be used to replace Air Transat's outgoing A310-300 fleet as well as select A330s.