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Jetstar flights have resumed across Australia after the airline resolved a software issue but a separate passport system outage has also caused delays.

Airline passengers booked to fly on the Airbus A320 aircrafts are facing long delays while urgent modifications are made to a piece of equipment susceptible to “intense solar radiation”.

Passengers had been told to expect ‘limited’ travel disruption over the weekend.

Airbus has instructed airlines worldwide to implement an urgent software update on roughly 6,000 A320-family aircraft after investigators traced an October in-flight incident to corrupted flight-control data.

Most of the 6,000 Airbus aeroplanes affected by an emergency recall had undergone a software fix by Saturday morning, according to France's Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot. Flights are resuming after the European aviation giant temporarily grounded aircraft around the world on Friday night, though disruption looks set to continue throughout…

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial plane after an analysis found computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue aircraft last month

Several UK airlines have Airbus A320 aircraft in their fleet

Although not all A320 planes will require a ‘precautionary’ software update, several UK airlines have these aircraft in their fleet.

Airbus issues an urgent recall of 6,000 A320 jets, causing global flight disruption as airlines ground aircraft and passengers face delays during peak travel periods.