UK’s Titan Airways to function A321neo for the government

Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) is set to run its to start with A321-200NX(LR) on behalf of the British governing administration. The Airbus narrowbody has now been painted with a livery resembling Royal Air Force’s VIP-configurable A330-200(MRTT).

G-XATW (msn 10150) was delivered to the British charter expert in Oct 2020 but has never been deployed into revenue support so significantly. Next a short period of storage at London Stansted, Titan ferried the plane to Bordeaux for cabin outfitting on November 15, 2020. It returned to the United kingdom – 1st to Norwich for repainting and then to Stansted, exactly where it remains – in March 2021. In accordance to the ch-aviation fleets ownership module, the A321neo is owned by Air Lease Company. It was in the beginning earmarked for operations beneath a prolonged-time period charter arrangement with extremely-luxury tour operator TCS Earth Travel, which designs to operate the to start with round-the-planet publish-COVID itinerary in October 2021.

It is unclear if the aircraft will be exclusively operated for the governing administration or also be readily available for Titan Airways’ in-property charter flights when not required for formal obligations. The carrier did not react to ch-aviation’s query in that regard.

The UK’s current VIP aircraft, ZZ336 (msn 1363), plays the function of each a authorities transportation and a multi-job tanker for the RAF.

Titan Airways is anticipating the supply of its 2nd A321-200NX(LR) soon.

The British government also has access to two passenger-configured BAe 146-100s. The quadjets are operated by the 32 (Royal) Squadron, which caters to the transport requires of the royal household and the elected officers. The plane are scheduled for retirement by the finish of March 2022.