The plane poised to shake up transatlantic travel
Also: Europe's overtourism woes and Japan's convenience store rival View in Browser 11.16.24 In travel news this week: crackdowns on overtourism in Florence and Pompeii, new developments in the world of long-haul and ultralong-haul flights, plus the California couple who moved to France, where things did not go as they hoped. By Maureen O'Hare ✈️ Launch of the Airbus A321XLR Iberia Airbus A321XLR (Courtesy Airbus) It's slim, it's sleek, it has a third fuel tank, and it's ready to open up unexplored long-haul routes. It's the new Airbus A321XLR — the XLR is for "Xtra Long Range" — and it just made its inaugural flight with Spain's Iberia airline on Thursday, with a hop from Madrid to Boston. Iberia's 182-seat plane is the world's longest-range single-aisle commercial aircraft, with a range of up to 4,700 nautical miles (a little over 5,400 miles). For c