Qantas' New A321XLR

Certainly is a slow backlog at Airbus, even the latest Jetstar arrivals have been slow from test flights to delivery, last year they pumped them out.
 
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Do customer acceptance flights use the customers call sign or the manufacturers?

Believe always manufacturer.. occasionally you have multiple acceptance flights.

Air NZ's ZK-NNH had 2 test flights on the 21st and 23rd of May using airbus call signs. The delivery flights were the first under ZK-NNH May 31.

I checked XFWs other arrivals and there's a WIZZ air A321 which just had it's 2nd test flight 2 days after the first test flight. There's a pattern (Air NZ, Wizz air and QF in progress) of the airbus call sign ending in 'A' flights which involve more manoeuvres in the flight profile, then at a later date a 'B' and a 'C' flight with uneventful flight profiles. Based on this I'd expect another test flight 'C' for QF tomorrow if they're working on Saturdays, followed by a delivery in ~ a week. I guess it will spend a bit of time on the ground with QF doing its own checks before the inaugural flight. Wondering if that 'C' flight could be the customer acceptance flight. Looking at some other test rego's there's sometimes only an 'A' and 'B' flight, so 'C' could occur under the airline rego.
 
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