{"id":16462,"date":"2025-12-01T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/airbus-confirms-most-of-its-recalled-6-000-a320-jets-now-modified\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:36","slug":"airbus-confirms-most-of-its-recalled-6-000-a320-jets-now-modified","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/airbus-confirms-most-of-its-recalled-6-000-a320-jets-now-modified\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus confirms most of its recalled 6 000 A320 jets now modified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Dozens of airlines from Asia to the United States said they had carried out a snap software retrofit ordered by Airbus, and\u00a0 mandated by global regulators, after a vulnerability to solar flares emerged in a recent mid-air incident on a JetBlue A320.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Airbus<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">said<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">on Monday that the vast majority of around 6,000 of its A 320-family fleet affected by the safety alert had been modified, with fewer than 100 jets still requiring work. But some require a longer process and Colombia&#8217;s Avianca continued to halt bookings for dates until December 8.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Sources familiar with the matter said the unprecedented decision to recall about half the A320-family fleet was taken shortly after the possible but unproven link to a drop in altitude on the JetBlue jet emerged late last week.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Shares in Airbus were down 2.1% in early trading in Paris.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16463,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-16462","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Airbus fleets were returning towards normal operations on Monday after the European plane maker pushed through abrupt software changes faster than expected, as it wrestled with safety headlines long focused on rival Boeing","published_date":"2025-12-01 00:00:00","news_description":"Airbus fleets were returning towards normal operations on Monday after the European plane maker pushed through abrupt software changes faster than expected, as it wrestled with safety headlines long focused on rival Boeing","form_embed":"Airbus fleets were returning towards normal operations on Monday after the European plane maker pushed through abrupt software changes faster than expected, as it wrestled with safety headlines long focused on rival Boeing","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20260,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16462\/revisions\/20260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}