On October 31st, VietJet became the 13th customer of the Airbus A321XLR with a firm order for 20 copies, five of which being a conversion of a previous purchase of Airbus A321neo. VietJet is the 13th customer since IndiGo has clearly expressed its intention of having Airbus A321XLR among the 300 Airbus A320neo family aircraft ordered a few days ago. The A321XLR's order backlog now reaches the symbolic mark of 300 firm sales and even surpasses it. The order of the Vietnamese airline is not a surprise since it had shown interest in the A321LR, especially for the future service to Australia. Maybe the range had then been considered a little short. With an additional 700 NM compared to the A321LR, the A321XLR allows VietJet to consider a more complete service to Australia but also to consider Russia and Moscow in particular. The contract comes with a training component with Airbus Services providing two flight simulators as well as instructors to train VietJet pilots.