Many airline passengers booked to fly on the Airbus A320 family of aircraft could find their flights disrupted 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.
In most cases the necessary update is expected to take two hours. With tight scheduling for many aircraft, disruption was widespread in Europe, Asia and Australasia. But Britain's three biggest A320 operators – British Airways, easyJet and Wizz Air – say their operations are unaffected.
