EASA emergency airworthiness directive for A319/320/321 fleet 28Nov 2025. Immediate Grounding for many

[Saab34]

Network has a very old fleet so perhaps it’s also related to age, ie older aircraft didn’t get that specific problematic update for whatever reason?

 

[jb747]

Network has a very old fleet so perhaps it’s also related to age, ie older aircraft didn’t get that specific problematic update for whatever reason?

Or quality of maintenance..i.e not bothering to do updates. To me this smells of software that was updated to fix an issue, and then a subsequent update removed it. Presumably all will eventually be revealed.

 

[jb747]

Interesting… Air New Zealand is saying the directive doesn’t come into effect until 30 November (which does appear consistent with the document issued above), but they’re also saying:

It is important for customers to know that this is a precautionary software update and does not present an immediate safety risk to our flights.​

I’m not sure that’s true??

Well, as it completely grounds flights (with the exception of non passenger ferry flights) there’s obviously no flight risk…as they aren’t allowed to fly.

 

[I love to travel]

So was on JQ 800 BNE to ADL this morning. Apart from a slow flight, (speeds rarely topped 700k) was completely normal until about 7 mins from landing where we had to do a go around. Heaps of panicked people , a few screaming, as they assumes problem with plane due to the issues. Captain came on and said it was an emergency with another aircraft so that settled people down. Some still clapped though on landing. For what it is worth was an A320-200 aircraft. Lucked in this morning that is for sure.

 

[Quickstatus]

So was on JQ 800 BNE to ADL this morning

That aircraft was never grounded VH-VGJ

 

[oz_mark]

So was on JQ 800 BNE to ADL this morning. Apart from a slow flight, (speeds rarely topped 700k) was completely normal until about 7 mins from landing where we had to do a go around. Heaps of panicked people , a few screaming, as they assumes problem with plane due to the issues. Captain came on and said it was an emergency with another aircraft so that settled people down. Some still clapped though on landing. For what it is worth was an A320-200 aircraft. Lucked in this morning that is for sure.

Wouldn't have thought it would have been that big a deal 7 minutes from landing

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Well, as it completely grounds flights (with the exception of non passenger ferry flights) there’s obviously no flight risk…as they aren’t allowed to fly.

Ha ha. Very droll.

Air NZ is saying however that the AD doesn’t come into effect until tomorrow, and that in the meantime there is no safety risk.

I’m not sure that’s true?

 

[serfty]

While the first flight of the the day SYD-MEL got away, the next four have been cancelled. That’s around 800-900 displaced pax just there

Yes, my Qantas flight to Sydney this afternoon has gone from L9 to Y0. My shadow has disappeared.

 

[moa999]

Air NZ is saying however that the AD doesn’t come into effect until tomorrow,

The confusion between immediate and two days is interesting.

Particularly when it's a month between the AA incident and this directive, and possibly even longer since the problematic update was rolled out.