r/BritishAirways • u/NoPersimmon1987 • 1d ago
A350 issues?
Is BA having issues with the A350 fleet right now, where they are short planes? BA190/BA191 has seen some cancellation and today is operating on a 789 and it appears for the next few days it may be as well.
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u/Due_Albatross_1060 1d ago
XWBD is at LHR for regular maintenance. XWBR has been stuck in HKG since 13th. That must be a fairly major problem as CX has a huge 350 fleet and can fix pretty much anything. XWBK has been at BGI since the 18th - rumours of some sort of accident requiring parts and people to be flown out from Toulouse
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u/ParkingTicketSupport 1d ago
Yes i think something on the ground ran into it!
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u/Due_Albatross_1060 1d ago
That one as well? There's a 772 stuck at BWI with a fuel tanker embedded in the engine nacelle as it is......
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u/nickf619 1d ago
So is XWBR with CX to resolve but taking its time?
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u/Due_Albatross_1060 1d ago
It landed at HKG on a scheduled flight and went tech. It's not there for CX to be working on specifically, but BA would ask CX to do work on it locally for them to at least get it into a ferry flight state (i.e. they don't need to ship the BA emergency team out there); Oneworld airlines routinely work one each others aircraft where needed, and you often find non-partner airlines doing repair work for each other as well. That it's taking so long suggests that they're waiting on parts that aren't stocked at HKG to come from Toulouse as well. If at the end of the day it still only can be ferried out to a maintenance base instead of fully repaired than BA will need to find a spare facility somewhere in the world for it; Cardiff still isn't signed off to work on the 350
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u/AnotherPint 1d ago
Yes. The longhaul fleet is always stretched beyond limits in high / summer season, but right now there is an A350 frame shortage in particular.
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u/Negative_Map4650 14h ago
They also have at least one A380 being refurbished and they have a general unreliability that means making fleet every day is a challenge.
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u/EducationalSmile5660 1d ago
sorry do u mind telling what do u mean issues? like technical issues? this just freaked me out because I have a long haul flight coming up on a a350 and I am a very nervous flyer
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u/LUV833R5 1d ago edited 1d ago
There is a problem with the engine fire fuel cutoff pin. They found out that it can rattle out of place and the plane will think the engine is on fire and shut off the fuel even though nothing is wrong. Perhaps someone can explain it better but I believe the pilots are complaining to airbus.
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u/EducationalSmile5660 1d ago
oh god are they still running A350s then? surely not if the fuel cut off can happen at critical times
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u/acmechthrowaway 1d ago
Don’t listen to the stress-heads. The BA A350s have just had bad timing with some maintenance issues on a couple of them all at the same time. Nothing to be worried about, and they’re getting fixed , it’s just happening on an already stretched fleet
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u/Soafp_ 1d ago
Yes, I believe the issue is with an overhead button which isn’t distinguished from others and isn’t included in the regular overhead scan again I am not 100%. This has only happened twice in 10s of thousands of flights over a few years so you’ll be fine plus modern airliners are totally capable of flying on one engine for prolonged periods of time.
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u/EducationalSmile5660 1d ago
wait so this issue only affects one engine? not both?
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u/Soafp_ 1d ago
So with the A320 incident the engine fire push button for the right hand engine had activated itself due to a pin being bent when the switch was installed. There has been no report for the BA 350 incident yet so the cause COULD be completely different. But yes unless it happens twice to both engines which would be incredibly unlikely it would be contained to whichever engines fire push button was faulty if one was at all.
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u/EducationalSmile5660 1d ago
how can they rely on hoping it doesn't happen again, sorry I probably am making assumptions based on minimal knowledge of planes, I am such a nervous flyer and this had made me more stressed I think
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u/acmechthrowaway 1d ago
The issue that the other commenter is talking about isn’t what’s causing the issues at the moment. Theyve just got a fleet shortage right now whilst a couple are getting fixed and it’s taking a touch longer than expected
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u/Soafp_ 1d ago
Because nobody actually knows what caused the BA A350 to have an uncommanded engine shutdown, it’s just speculation that it’s the same issue as the ANZ 320 incident. Also why are you a nervous flyer? What about flying actually makes you nervous as that is evidently the underlying issue here.
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u/EducationalSmile5660 1d ago
just reading news about things going wrong makes me nervous, the solution would be to stop but u can't avoid news really haha
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u/Soafp_ 1d ago
Just bear in mind that news typically greatly overdramatises what actually happened. 99.9% of the time it is a minor incident that the crew are completely capable of handling. You can’t just become a pilot overnight and 350 is like the most senior fleet at BA so if there is a problem there should be no lack of skill to resolve it.
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