Pegasus receives first Airbus from new Toulouse single-aisle assembly line

Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines has taken delivery of an Airbus A321neo, the first aircraft to roll off the airframer’s new final assembly line in Toulouse. The twinjet (TC-RDK) is powered by CFM International Leap-1A engines. It was flown from Toulouse to Istanbul on 27 December. Airbus assembled the aircraft from a newly-established line at the former A380 production building. The line was set up to support Airbus’s efforts to reach a build rate of 75 A320neo-family jets monthly from 2026. Airbus had a production backlog of 6,719 A320neo-family aircraft at the end of November, including just over 4,400 A321neos. Pegasus operates around 109 aircraft, mainly Airbus single-aisle types although it still has more than a dozen Boeing 737-800s. The carrier has 68 A321neos on order.<br/>