SKY Airline (Chile) (H2, Santiago de Chile) has signed a firm order for ten A321-200neo(XLR)s which it plans to use to expand its international network from Santiago de Chile, Airbus said in a press release.

"This new aircraft fleet will allow us to expand our offer of international and wide-ranging routes, always under our successful low-cost model and its extremely convenient ticket prices," Chief Executive Holger Paulmann said.

"The A321XLR will allow SKY to offer its customers new destinations, such as direct flights from Santiago in Chile to Miami International in the United States," the President of Airbus Latin America, Arturo Barreira, added.

The Chilean low-cost carrier's chief executive, Holger Paulmann, told ch-aviation in a statement that it expects its first A321neo(XLR)s to arrive from the final quarter of 2023 onwards.

SKY also selected Airbus as its flight training provider, making the airline the launch customer for the new Airbus Chile Training Centre.

According to the ch-aviation fleets module, SKY Airline currently operates nine A319-100s and ten A320-200neo. Its subsidiary SKY Airline Perú (H8, Lima International) operates a further four A320neo.