Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila Ninoy Aquino International) has taken delivery of its first A321neo with RP-C9930 (msn 8117) having been positioned to Manila Ninoy Aquino International from Hamburg Finkenwerder via Abu Dhabi International on June 1.

The Filipino carrier has a further twenty of the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G-powered jets on order from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) with deliveries to run through to 2024.

Deliveries for the type were to have begun in November 2017 only to slip to January 2018 and then to June 2018. The delays have been attributed to the ongoing problems affecting Pratt & Whitney's PW1000 GTF motors.

The A321neo will be deployed on PAL flights from Manila Ninoy Aquino International to Brisbane International (beginning July), as well as Sapporo Chitose (Japan), Sydney Kingsford Smith (Australia), Delhi International and Mumbai International in India over the coming months.

The ch-aviation fleets module shows PAL's narrowbody fleet also entails seven A320ceo and eighteen A321ceo.