Japan’s ANA Holdings drops A321neo(LR)s and defers deliveries

ANA Holdings has tweaked its Airbus order book, dropping the A321-200NX(LR) in favour of the standard A321-200N version, and simultaneously deferring their deliveries.

The Japanese holding said in a stock market filing that the total number of A320neo Family aircraft it has on order remains unchanged at eighteen. However, instead of sixteen A320-200Ns due for delivery between 2022 and 2025, the airline is now planning to take 15 units of the type in the same time frame. Two A321-200NX(LR)s have also been dropped in favour of three A321-200Ns. While the extended-range units were scheduled to deliver between 2022 and 2023, the three standard A321neo are supposed to enter ANA’s fleet between 2025 and 2026.

The holding said the motivation was spurred by changes in its business environment..

ANA Holdings originally ordered eighteen A320-200Ns for its low-cost carrier, Peach Aviation (MM, Osaka Kansai), in 2019. In 2020, it converted two of these orders into A321-200NX(LR)s. The group’s mainline carrier, ANA – All Nippon Airways (NH, Tokyo Haneda), already operates eleven A320-200Ns and twenty-two A321-200Ns in terms of its A320neo Family fleet.

Despite the order’s reconfiguration, Peach Aviation has not entirely abandoned plans to operate the A321-200NX(LR). It still has two units on order from Air Lease Corporation and recently inducted the first. The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows the LCC also has an independent order directly from Airbus for five A320-200Ns and a single A321-200NX(LR).