PIA says its planes safe as Airbus recalls jets for software repairs
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it is clarified that PIA did not load the faulty software patch, hence our planes are perfectly safe and there shall be no flight disruption consequently," the national carrier said in a statement
(Web Desk) - Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Saturday assured passengers that its aircrafts remain "perfectly safe," confirming it never installed faulty flight-control software that has triggered a worldwide scramble to ground jets and cancel flights after European planemaker issued a major recall for A320 jets.
"On the subject of issues with Flight Controls Software (ELAC-L104) on Airbus planes, it is clarified that PIA did not load the faulty software patch, hence our planes are perfectly safe and there shall be no flight disruption consequently," the national carrier said in a statement on X.
On the subject of issues with Flight Controls Software (ELAC-L104) on Airbus planes, it is clarified that #PIA did not load the faulty software patch, hence our planes are perfectly safe and there shall be no flight disruption consequently.
— PIA (@Official_PIA) November 29, 2025
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Read More: Airbus issues major A320 recall, threatening global flight disruption
The recall of 6,000 planes appears to be among the largest in its 55-year history and comes weeks after the A320 overtook the Boeing 737 as the most-delivered model.
At the time Airbus issued its bulletin to the plane's more than 350 operators, some 3,000 A320-family jets were in the air.
Meanwhile, global airlines scrambled to fix the software glitch on Airbus A320 jets as a partial recall by the European planemaker halted hundreds of flights in Asia and Europe and threatened US travel over the busiest weekend of the year.
