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This has been going on for years with the US A321's. Typically more often in the winter, but occasionally other times of year. There was a wicked storm moving through the midwest yesterday, so perhaps the aircraft had to take an alternate routing, causing more fuel.
Nothing new though, ever since US had the A321's with only 16F seats (about 2009 or so) this seems to occasionally happen.