Very few UK flights have been affected after several airlines had to update software in some of their Airbus A320 aircraft, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said.

Passengers had been told to expect “limited” travel disruption over the weekend but on Saturday afternoon the CAA said the impact in Britain was minimal.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the main certifying authority for the A320 family of aircraft, on Friday night issued an instruction to update one of the aircraft’s onboard computers as a “precautionary action”.

A small number of aircraft operated by UK airlines have not yet had the update, the CAA said.

Rob Bishton, CAA chief executive, said in a statement: “I want to thank the airlines for working at pace to take this precautionary maint

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