Airbus is examining a newly discovered A320-family fuselage panel flaw that is delaying some deliveries, Reuters reports, adding pressure to its 2025 production push.

The latest snag comes just as airlines worldwide, including Indian carriers, rush through emergency software upgrades ordered after regulators flagged a flight-control vulnerability linked to solar radiation.

Airbus's bold move to expand A320 production reveals the pressure and momentum shaping the future of aviation.

The manufacturer issued an alert about the problem affecting the A320 family of aircraft on Friday after analysis of a flight involving an A320 showed "intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls".

Orders are slowing for the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 jet families -- but production growth is just getting started. This order slowdown has made many analysts skeptical that Boeing and Airbus will be able to implement planned production increases for ...

Airbus said around 6,000 A320 aircraft needed either software or hardware fixes to resolve the issue, and by Monday morning the “vast majority” of those fixes had been completed.