Narrative:

It is come to my attention that aircraft X has had numerous fume events. While I know the problem is being worked by airbus; pratt & whitney; and the company; any aircraft that has had numerous events should be either fixed or removed from service. Poisonous or toxic levels of any of these fumes could have long term and short term effects on the crew members as well as the passengers who have no idea why they may even have symptoms. And additionally; operationally [company] is ill equipped to deal with affective communication between the crew and chief pilots in any abnormal situation internationally. Satellite phones and or a device that the crew could have that would be issued would help.descending into ZZZ for an ILS circle to land. We encountered a fume event. The event was short-lived and turning off pack number one seemed to stop the issue. I had smelled the fumes before in my career. But this time the fumes had an effect of causing a headache and lightheadedness. Upon arriving at the gate; I asked my first officer how he felt. He said he had a headache and was also lightheaded I felt the same. I opened the cockpit door and ask the flight attendants if they smelled anything. They both said immediately that they had headaches and the fumes were extremely bad. They also indicated several passengers were covering their faces. Due to the fact we were in ZZZZ we did not go to the hospital. We went to the hotel and dead headed home I still had headaches on [date] and [date] I called to remove myself from [date] and [date] flying. I have some headache yet today.

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Title: A320 Captain reported a fume event during approach to landing.

Narrative: It is come to my attention that Aircraft X has had numerous fume events. While I know the problem is being worked by Airbus; Pratt & Whitney; and the company; any aircraft that has had numerous events should be either fixed or removed from service. Poisonous or toxic levels of any of these fumes could have long term and short term effects on the crew members as well as the passengers who have no idea why they may even have symptoms. And additionally; operationally [Company] is ill equipped to deal with affective communication between the crew and Chief Pilots in any abnormal situation internationally. Satellite phones and or a device that the crew could have that would be issued would help.Descending into ZZZ for an ILS circle to land. We encountered a fume event. The event was short-lived and turning off pack number one seemed to stop the issue. I had smelled the fumes before in my career. But this time the fumes had an effect of causing a headache and lightheadedness. Upon arriving at the gate; I asked my First Officer how he felt. He said he had a headache and was also lightheaded I felt the same. I opened the cockpit door and ask the flight attendants if they smelled anything. They both said immediately that they had headaches and the fumes were extremely bad. They also indicated several passengers were covering their faces. Due to the fact we were in ZZZZ we did not go to the hospital. We went to the hotel and dead headed home I still had headaches on [date] and [date] I called to remove myself from [date] and [date] flying. I have some headache yet today.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.