News and notes from around the interweb:

• American Airlines seemingly doesn’t want you to know – but the Airbus A321XLR is coming!! And December 18th looks increasingly the day for its inaugural.

  AA XLR update:
  It is now a virtual impossibility for the XLR to show up in revenue service -before- Dec 18th and an ever increasing likelihood that it -will- show up starting Dec 18th (AA118 and AA341, is the current plan.) All highly subject to change, needless to say.

  — JonNYC (@xjonnyc.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM

  as of now:
  – flight attendant training is under way– no mention of "doors locked closed" or anything like that
  – at this exact moment, I do not believe the seats have been certified
  – AA seems pretty confident of December in-service date

  — JonNYC (@xjonnyc.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM

  let me temporarily withdraw the idea of those 2 flight numbers. Still December 18th, but it feels like it might make sense for the official inaugural to be from JFK. So, stand by Dec 18th, but not certain on the individual flights.

  — JonNYC (@xjonnyc.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM

• Okey dokey

  Scuba-clad man robs Disney Springs restaurant, swims away https://t.co/qvMtRYuzaS

  — WFTV Channel 9 (@WFTV) September 15, 2025

• Coach flyers don’t feel bad, they don’t clean business class either.

  En @AmericanAir vuelo 1122 BOG–DFW, asiento 3E en business class. El boleto cuesta lo suficiente como para esperar un mínimo de limpieza y cuidado. Encontré una botella vacía de licor en el bolsillo del asiento al abordar. Me dio asco y decepción.
  Pagamos más para recibir un… pic.twitter.com/id23F1eoiX

  — Luis Felipe Arango P (@luchoap) September 18, 2025

• Well this would be unpleasant. (HT: @joepercussion1)

  A response tonight from the company which employs the BWI workers who rallied today: pic.twitter.com/3T9PlmTyBX

  — Brad Bell (@Brad7News) September 18, 2025

• There are still some special things about Southwest.

  My @SouthwestAir plane this morning had the carry on compartments covered in drawings from children at the Ronald McDonald House and now I’m sobbing pic.twitter.com/mb1zbzlWbU

  — Liz Wac (@lizwac07) September 18, 2025

• This may not appeal, and you may not want the old one, but Amex Plat now comes with a $200 Oura credit and there’s actually the Gen3 for $199. You need a subscription to actually use it, but figured it’s worth pointing out that the credit can be enough for full ring cost, not just for as a discount towards one.

• oneworld wants a member in India. Both oneworld and SkyTeam would love to have IndiGo, and they’ve increasingly done codesharing and interlining making the IT integration easier. The biggest challenge is probably Indian government signoff (both for bureaucratic and competition reasons but also the tendency to protect Air India even though the carrier is now privatized).