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Cathay Pacific Airways A350s to return to full operating schedule from September 6
September 4th 2024
Cathay Pacific Airways has conducted repairs on 15 of the Rolls-Royce XWB-97 engines that power the airline’s A350 fleet after identifying a problem with the engine type’s fuel nozzle. Read More » Full operations of the effected wide-bodies will resume on September 6 following replacement of the effected engine components. It had completed a “rigorous” inspection of its 18 A350-1000s and 30 A350-900s, it said, after one A350-1000, bound for Zurich on September 2, developed ‘an engine component failure” and returned to Hong Kong. Since September 2, the airline has cancelled 68 flights. At press time, only regional flights were being cancelled. Bloomberg News has reported Cathay Pacific engineers have been instructed to specifically check the flexible hoses supplying fuel to the engine for abnormalities, deformation, kinks, bulges or degradation.
