Scoot enters A321neo jet service on 28 June 2021

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Image courtesy : Airbus

Scoot on 28 June 2021 welcomes its new single-aisle Airbus A321neo aircraft entry service as it made its inaugural flight from Singapore to Suvarnabhumi as TR610. 

Flight TR610 departed from Changi Airport Terminal 1 at 3.24 pm on 28 June 2021 and is scheduled to arrive in Suvarnabhumi at 4.55 pm local time. The return flight TR611 departs from Suvarnabhumi at 5.40 pm and arrives in Singapore at 9 pm the same day. 

Subsequently in August, Scoot will deploy the A321neo on its Singapore-Cebu and Singapore-Ho Chi Minh City routes. 

Scoot currently has three A321neo jets in its fleet and is acquiring another 10 A321neos under lease agreements with BOC Aviation. Three further A321neos will be delivered between later this year and 2022.

Each Scoot’s A321neo aircraft features 236 seats in a single-class, 3-3 configuration. Benefits of the A321neo has a range of up to 2,620 nautical miles (nm), or 4,852 km, approximately 270nm farther than the A320neo. This allows Scoot to deploy the A321neo aircraft on short to medium-haul routes with up to six hours of flight time compared to the older-generation A320 aircraft’s four-to-five hours, thereby opening up more options for new destinations. 

With a larger passenger capacity of 236 seats, 50 more than the A320neo, and more fuel-efficient engines, the single-class A321neo will allow Scoot to improve its operating economics and unit costs. It will also enable Scoot to optimise its fleet utilisation to better match capacity to demand. For instance, it can be deployed in place of the A320 during popular seasons, days of week or flight tranches, or substitute Scoot’s larger Boeing 787 aircraft in pockets of softer demand. It can also be deployed to complement some Boeing 787 routes to enable higher and more customer-convenient frequency. 

The new A321neo aircraft also underscore Scoot’s commitment to offering customers a more comfortable and improved travel experience, through features such as premium black leather seats, amply-sized overhead compartment bins, ambient lighting technologies that reduce jetlag, improved air quality, and reduced noise emissions. In the long term, the A321neo will enable Scoot to achieve more sustainable operations and reduce carbon emissions with its enhanced sharklets and fuel-efficient Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM engines.