ANA Holdings, Japan’s largest airline, announced that it cancelled 65 flights on Saturday after the global recall of Airbus A320-family jets forced the carrier to ground part of its fleet.
ANA, together with its affiliate Peach Aviation, is Japan’s largest operator of single-aisle Airbus aircraft, including the A320. The mandatory inspections and software updates required by regulators have prompted airlines worldwide to temporarily pull affected A320 aircraft from service.
The cancellations add to the broader wave of global disruptions triggered by the recall, which was ordered after a solar-radiation event in late October exposed a vulnerability in the A320’s flight-control systems.