The French Gateway, A Generic Journey

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Hey community!

Today with Basel being the hub, I was able to find a seasonal transatlantic route operated by Air Transat, which previously used their A310’s, before updating and slightly downsizing to their A321-XLR. Today I flew this route using the Generic A321 as an overnight flight, it took me 6¾ hours, it’s amazing how far the A321 can actually travel, and what routes can be flown with them!

@Marc have you been able to spot one of Air Transat’s transatlantic flights to Basel? 😮

Flight Details

Aircraft & Livery: Airbus A321 // Generic (in place of Air Transat)

Route: Montreal CYUL - Basel LFSB

Server: Expert

Flight Time: 6:45

Anyway, to the shots! I can’t call myself the best editor, but with a 2½ hour car journey and nothing but a phone with 6,100 hours of Infinite Flight on it and an insufficient connection, I couldn’t resist it.

Parked at the Gate (Gate 58) in Montreal

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Lining up on 06L, CYUL

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Rotating out of CYUL, 06L

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Departing East out of Montreal

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Passing Cork, Ireland

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Passing London, England

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Passing Paris, France

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Turning onto base, runway 15 at LFSB

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Touching down, Runway 15 at LFSB

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Parked next to @Declan (spawned in after I parked), Gate 18

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Let me know what you think of these shots, and also if you think the Generic is an underrated livery.

A special thanks to the controllers for providing a great service to the ground!

@Eden_Tan - Center
@JAR - LFSB Ground/Tower/ATIS

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A Transatlantic Flight in the A321
A321 Transatlantic
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Second shot was sooooo nice!

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Thanks! Personally I love the third shot, the rotation is truly beautiful 😍

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I have seen this several times being flown on a planefinder app that I have. The airline also does flights to Toronto.

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Whoa, Ethan taking pictures? Nice shots mate ;)

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Air Transat have a good ton of routes around Canada and the world. I flew on this airline from Gatwick to Vancouver a few years back!

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I like the last picture 😄

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Yeah, I like the last picture as well. Haha!

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Definitely not bias lol 😂

I like it because of the Easy Jet and it looks nice

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No clue why, must be the mountains in the background :winking_face_with_tongue:

Am I surprised? :slight_smile::joy:

Thanks for liking them!

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thou art bamboozled. Nice pictures anyway :)

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Great photos mate! By the way I was controlling when you flew your generic Dash-8 Q400 into Lugano hahaha

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True, I didn’t think of how I also flew that 😅

Got the inspiration from this:.

And this hence the ‘weird’ approach:

A Close Call At Lugano
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Oh wow! These are amazing photos

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Beautiful shots!! I’m happy to have been able to provide you service for such a nice and well planned flight, thanks for sharing it! I have to say I was very impressed when I saw your route coning in haha. I did a similar flight last night, from LFSB to KBED(Hanscom Air Field a bit west of Boston) in a Citation X, super fun to do transatlantic flights with smaller aircraft!

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Amazing photos, I love the second shot!

I just flew Montreal to Nantes recently with the A321! (Using Air Transat, but general livery because Air Transat doesn’t have a livery in IF ☹️)

I’d share some screenshots, but they are for thunderbolt’s screenshot competition. 😉

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Awesome !

Flying longer routes with the A321 is pretty fun. It’s surprising that it can operate longer routes across the Atlantic , definitely very unique :)

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Aww man, you don’t know how happy I am that someone decided to fly from my home airport! Plus, you flew generic for the sake of realism 🤩. Mate you definitely have my respect 👌. Those shots are amazing too! Keep it up!

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