Airline passengers booked to fly on the Airbus A320 aircrafts are facing long delays while urgent modifications are made to a piece of equipment susceptible to “intense solar radiation”. A total of 6,500 of the twin-jets are believed to be affected, with many airlines impacted, causing widespread disruption across Europe, Asia and Australasia. Britain's three biggest A320 operators – British Airways, easyJet and Wizz Air – say their operations are unaffected. The Independent’s travel correspondent Simon Calder explains all you need to know.

Europe's Airbus said it was ordering an immediate software change on a significant number of its best-selling A320-family jets.

About 6,000 plans are thought to be affected, about half the European aerospace giant's global fleet.

A solar radiation–linked software flaw in Airbus A320 jets triggered urgent global fixes, causing possible delays but no safety risk for travelers.

PARIS: Airbus on Friday warned of potential travel disruption as it upgrades some 6,000 operational A320 aircraft, after an incident on a JetBlue flight last month. The European…

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said in a directive that a JetBlue flight on Oct. 30 experienced an "uncommanded and limited pitch down event."

La flotta mondiale è di circa 6000 aerei che la coompagnia ha chiesto di fermare per l’aggiornamento dei software

Airbus ha annunciato il richiamo di circa 6.000 aeromobili A320 per sostituire urgentemente il software di controllo vulnerabile alle radiazioni solari, un bug evidenziato da un…

Around 6,000 planes were affected after an issue that could corrupt data was discovered.

The aircraft manufacturer ordered an emergency software update for the flight control systems on these planes, resulting in widespread delays and flight cancellations across the…

Airline passengers booked to fly on the Airbus A320 aircrafts are facing long delays while urgent modifications are made to a piece of equipment susceptible to “intense solar…

PARIS: Fears of days of travel chaos across Europe and the world eased on Saturday after plane manufacturer Airbus intervened rapidly to implement a software upgrade it had said…