Firm now expects to deliver 790 aircraft instead of 820 due to recent supplier quality issue on fuselage panels impacting A320 Family delivery flow - Anadolu Ajansı

Airbus confirmed on Monday it faced an industrial quality issue with metal panels on some A320-family jets, in its latest challenge after a recall to fix a computer glitch.

The world’s largest planemaker is placing delays as its engineering teams expand inspections of A320 fuselage panels after detecting defects across broader sets of jets than initially expected.

How the JetBlue A320 triggered fleet-wide checks demonstrated the fragility and the resilience of today’s software-driven aviation systems . The hidden fragility of modern aviation revealed by a single A320: The Airbus weekend crisis .

Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, threatening upheaval during the busiest travel weekend of the year in the United States and disruption worldwide.

JetBlue Airways has modestly reduced expectations for its year-end operational performance in response to a trio of disruptions - Hurricane Melissa, the US federal government shutdown and the global grounding of Airbus A320-family jets.

European airlines ITA Airways, easyJet and Wizz Air reported no operational disruptions as they moved swiftly to complete software updates on their Airbus A320 family aircraft following an emergency mandate.