The purchase of the A320s, valued at $490 million, is part of the Philippine Airlines' domestic and regional fleet expansion and modernization of long-haul international routes.

A solar radiation–linked software flaw in Airbus A320 jets triggered urgent global fixes, causing possible delays but no safety risk for travelers.

According to Airbus, some of its A320 passenger jets have had to undergo a major software update that protects aircraft from solar radiation.

Airbus identified an apparent issue relating to "intense solar radiation," which "may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls" and recommended an emergency software update to the A320 family of aircraft – a common passenger plane for U.S. carriers.

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 .

This seems to be a week where the focus is on challenges around Airbus and now the latest in terms of one of its s