>>1282473>Most people are going from Chicago, Orlando, New York or DC to Paris, London, Dublin or Frankfurt.You're looking at the A321LR as a possible replacement for widebodies, but it's not.
Aer Lingus is replacing the 757s with A321LRs, but in their case, the main routes which are low in demand are the Shannon-New York, Cork-New York, Dublin-DC and Dublin-Toronto routes, which are low capacity in the first place. There's the other aspect, that the A321LRs also open up the possibility of going to other destinations not yet served by Aer Lingus, like Dublin-Montréal and Dublin-Baltimore.
Scandinavian Airlines System also has some A321LR orders, but these will be covering some of the much less popular direct routes between Scandinavian destinations and North America. Copenhagen will still be SAS' main hub, but from Stockholm and Oslo, the much lower demand opens up the possibility of operating A321LRs viably.
TAP Portugal is another airline with A321LRs on order, and what makes them interesting is the fact that the A321LR doesn't have the range for major Brazilian cities from Lisbon, but I suspect that TAP Portugal might be interested in some destinations which would be unheard of to us, since we're not Brazilian/Portugese. There's also the factor that TAP Portugal might also just be interested in operating flights to non-hub major cities, like Toronto, Montréal and so on.
Finally, Air Transat has orders for A321LRs, which make sense for both their seasonal charter flights to Mexico and the Carribean from Canada, but also for the many transatlantic flights they operate. In this case, the A321LRs will be replacing aging A310s, an attempt at a MoM aircraft before MoM was a thing.
