D-AYAT, VH-OYC (MSN 11676) has started taxi tests prior to ff.

OYD has completed her CAP.

All being well, she should be heading our way in the near future

A321-251NX VH-OYD has now completed its third flight, listed as another customer acceptance flight, of just 26 minutes from XFW, on 11/12/23 as D-AYAV and callsign AIB797C. The flight was probably to test a fix to a fault identified from the previous flight.

Delivery is scheduled for 15-17/12/23 - see post #158.

VH-OYC has conducted a taxi check and rejected take off at XFW on 11/12/23 as D-AYAT.

A321-251NX VH-OYD has now completed its fourth flight, also listed as another customer acceptance flight, of 25 minutes from XFW, on 12/12/23 as D-AYAV and callsign AIB797D. The callsign has the next letter of the alphabet added for each subsequent test flight.

In addition, A321-251NX, VH-OYC has conducted its first flight XFW-HAM-XFW on 12/12/23 with a total flight time of 2 hours 30 minutes. It was using test registration D-AYAT and callsign AIB676A.

OYD has started its delivery trip, currently in BLR from XFW as JQ8995

OYC has completed her CAP yesterday as AIB676B with a 01:14 flight.

All being well, another one for the Xmas rush

-OYD is #10 by my maths that means there’s a further 8 of these ‘Bintang buses’ on firm order before the 20 XLR’s start being delivered, is that correct?

With SIN, BKK and HKT + all DPS flights being upguaged to A321NEO’s the Perth base is going to need a few of these from 3Q 2024.

OYD completed its ferry flight into Melbourne this morning.

OYD first service is scheduled for December 19th 06:30 AEDT as JQ430, YMML-YBCG.

D-AYAT, VH-OYC (MSN 11676) has been delivered and is currently at Bangalore, India as JQ8997

Another delivery before Xmas.