Passengers are expected to face disruption over the next few days as several UK airlines are required to carry out a software update in some Airbus 320 aircrafts, an aviation agency has said. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the main certifying authority for the A320 family of aircraft, issued the instruction on Friday night as a "precautionary action".

Although not all A320 planes will require a software update, several UK airlines have these aircrafts in their fleet and could be impacted, the EASA said.

"The requirement will mean the airlines flying these aircraft will in some cases have to change software over the days ahead or remain on the ground from Sunday onwards until the software has been changed," it said.

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