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British Airways named airline of the year at Capa awards with Spirit named best low-cost carrier

Capa's annual Aviation Awards for Excellence were handed out in Malta last week and honour top airlines and airports around the world.




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British Airways reveals new menu on flights from London Gatwick and it includes caviar

The new food has a focus on provenance and BA says the provider, Newrest, has been 'working closely with suppliers in the south of England to source the best quality ingredients'.




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British Airways staff surprise passengers flying into Heathrow with a festive performance of carols

The 15-strong choir cheered Heathrow arrivals with a unique rendition of the festive hit Deck the Halls. West End musical director Richard Beadle trained the choir.




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British Airways pilots reported smelling fumes in their cockpits five times in just seven weeks

Two of the incidents required BA flight crew to wear oxygen masks, a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) revealed.




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Ryanair voted worst airline again by Which? with British Airways slipping down the rankings 

Irish carrier Ryanair has finished bottom of the respected Which? annual airline survey for the seventh consecutive year. Also faring badly is British Airways with a customer score of just 55%.




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British Airways plummets in Which? survey of nations favourite airlines

The Which? poll of more than 6,500 UK travellers saw BA hit third-from-bottom for short-haul travel. It was second-worst for long haul.




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Frequent fliers and British Airways crew reveal their HEATHROW HACKS  

MailOnline asked frequent fliers from aviation sites, BA and American Airlines employees and Heathrow Airport's Director of Customer Relations and Service for their top tips for the hub.




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British Airways passenger tells police she saw a drone flying at 30,000ft

Sarah Baker from Cambridge was on a British Airways flight from Tokyo when she saw the device 30 minutes before landing at Heathrow Airport, London.




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Drunk engineer avoids jail after touching two teenage girls on a British Airways flight 

Craig Wylie, 28, pleaded guilty to two charges of assault by beating of two girls, aged 17 and 16, on a British Airways flight from Ghana to London Heathrow but was spared jail.




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Frequent flyers vote British Airways' 'Club Suite' the world's best new business class seat

Frequent flyers voted in the UK's biggest frequent flyer website's airline awards, with the site - www.headforpoints.com - saying BA's new business class seat represents 'a genuine step forward'.




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Prime Minister and girlfriend Carrie Symonds help out taxpayers by flying British Airways economy

EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister landed in St Lucia on Thursday morning after a long-haul British Airways flight from London. It has now emerged he and Carrie Symonds were seated in economy.




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BA flight attendants killed in New Year's Eve lorry crash were due to fly to Las Vegas next day

Dominic Fell, 23, Joe Finnis, 25, and Rachel Clark, 20, were killed when the car they were travelling in collided with a HGV at a junction in Stanwell, Surrey, at 11.39pm on New Year's Eve.




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STEPHEN GLOVER: Boris Johnson was too slow to get off his Caribbean holiday sunbed

STEPHEN GLOVER: Boris Johnson returned on a British Airways flight yesterday morning two days too late. He should have cut short his brief holiday in Mustique on Friday.




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British Airways flight BA4473 diverts 'due to smoke in the cabin

The Embraer E190LR was en-route between Dublin and London City when it turned off course while passing Wrexham. The aircraft was due to depart Dublin at 7.15pm but left the Irish capital at 7.40pm.




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Women are more willing to pay extra for greener air travel with lower greenhouse emissions

US experts surveyed nearly 1,200 people and found that, on average, people were more willing to cover small increases in costs for flights with smaller emission levels.




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British Airways cancels all flights to and from China until MARCH over Coronavirus fears

All flights to Beijing and Shanghai have been cancelled today and tomorrow. Flights after this are being reviewed. Bookings have been suspended until March.




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Coronavirus fears on British Airways flight from Hong Kong

The doors were kept sealed when the overnight flight landed at Heathrow from Hong Kong at 5am this morning. Crew were overheard saying: 'Oh sh**, two passengers have got coronavirus.'




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British Airways records its fastest ever transatlantic flight as Storm Ciara blows jet from the US

The Boeing 747 hurtled across the Atlantic before touching down in Heathrow after just four hours and 56 minutes in the air. Its time exceeds the 2018 record of five hours and 13 minutes.




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Lawyer, 35, claims British Airways ruined his family's £15,000 first class trip to Dubai

Antonio Michaelides flew from London to Dubai with his wife and baby daughter for a trip that combined work with a family holiday, but said a 's******' from crew meant he and his wife had to hold the child.




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Former British Airways steward reveals cabin crew secrets in book Journey Of A Reluctant Air Steward

In Journey Of A Reluctant Air Steward, Simon J Marton, from Wiltshire, produces a Jumbo-sized volume of revelations from his time in the skies.




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Drunk Polish passenger, 39, admits threatening air hostess on British Airways flight from Singapore

Daniel Ksiazek, 39, yelled 'c***' and 'f***ing a**hole' at British Airways cabin staff on the Heathrow-bound plane from Singapore on October 12 last year.




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British Airways flight to Florida makes emergency landing in Bermuda as phone starts smoking 

British Airways flight 2167 from Gatwick to Tampa, Florida, on Saturday February 5 when the captain took a decision to divert it to Bermuda when passengers in business said a phone was smoking




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BA flight to Milan delayed at Heathrow after a passenger got off the plane over fears of coronavirus

A passenger due to fly from London Heathrow to Milan today refused to board a British Airways flight at the last minute, amid fears they would contract the deadly coronavirus.




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Nightmare for millions of Britons heading on holiday as coronavirus outbreak grips Europe

Holidaymakers have been left in a panic over the spread of the virus and British Airways are now offering a change of date to passengers heading to northern Italy in the next week.




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Former British Airways steward Simon J Marton reveals his top tips for getting a flight upgrade

Want to know how to snare that golden seat with a cattle class ticket? Then heed the counsel of former British Airways chief steward Simon J Marton, author of Journey Of A Reluctant Air Steward.




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Author Anthony Horowitz, 64, says British Airways left him 'stranded' in Essex

The writer was supposed to fly from Geneva to London City yesterday. But the flight was delayed, meaning London City had closed and the flight had to be diverted to Southend, 35 miles away.




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Mother-of-two, 47, who attacked British Airways cabin crew in drunken rage avoids jail 

Emma Langford had to be handcuffed and strapped to her seat while on the British Airways flight from Heathrow to Cape Town following the rampage. She was given a suspended sentence.




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Anger for British Airways passengers as IT meltdown leaves them unable to access bookings online

British Airways customers are reporting error messages when attempting to log in and access new or existing bookings, with issues beginning at around 6.30am this morning.




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Rapper Tinie Tempah slams British Airways for condition of his 'disgusting' seat

Tinie Tempah slated British Airways for the condition of his 'disgusting' plane seat. The musician filmed two videos which he posted on his social media accounts.




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Tory MP claims coronavirus is the perfect opportunity to snap up bargain holiday deals

Sir Desmond Swayne, MP for New Forest West, Hamphire,has advised people to take advantage of travel companies slashing prices amid global panic about the illness.




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Coronavirus UK: British Airways admits job cuts will happen as travel companies ground flights

BA has warned it will make job cuts in the 'short term, perhaps long term' as airline companies ground flights following a drop in demand, Virgin Atlantic, said it would ground 75% of its fleet by March.




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British Airways captain with coronavirus unwittingly flew plane to Saint Lucia

EXCLUSIVE The captain, who has not been named, had piloted a British Airways 777 jet flight from Gatwick last Tuesday.




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British Airways pilots face 50 per cent pay cut in desperate bid to save airline

British Airways pilots have opted to take a 50 per cent pay cut in April and May as the company fights for its survival amidst the coronavirus pandemic.




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Government 'plans to buy SHARES In British Airways to keep it afloat through coronavirus crisis'

The UK Government is drawing up plans to buy shares in British Airways and other airlines hit by the Pandemic Crisis to keep them afloat, insiders confirmed (pictured, Grant Shapps).




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Billie Faiers' husband Greg Shepherd playfully scolds wife over THAT flight to NYC

Billie Faiers was playfully told off by her husband Greg Shepherd during the latest episode of Mummy Diaries, which showed their reaction to the incident.




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British Airways 'to suspend 36,000 staff days after grounding ALL flights to and from Gatwick'

Madrid-based International Airlines Group proposed a dividend of around 17p per share in February, when the ravages of the killer virus on society and the global economy were already apparent.




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Coronavirus UK: Billionaire Sir Philip Green wants taxpayer help

Furious Twitter users called on the British retail mogul to sell one of his three yachts, which includes the £122million Lionheart, or use some of his estimated £1.8billion fortune.




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Airlines including BA and Easyjet are selling tickets for flights in April and May despite lockdown

Airlines including British Airways and EasyJet are selling tickets for flights in May despite health officials warnings a global lockdown could last for months (stock photo of a woman on a beach).




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Coronavirus UK: British Airways pilot is Tesco delivery driver

BA pilot Peter Login was saluted for his temporary change of career as he ditched Boeing 747s for a Mercedes Sprinter to drop off food to Britons in coronavirus lockdown.




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British Airways fly 50 dogs and cats from Cyprus to UK after being abandoned due to coronavirus

The animals were cared for by highly-trained staff and animal handlers while on board the British Airways 747 cargo flight from Larnaca to London Heathrow.




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British Airways cabin crew boss dies of coronavirus in a hospital bed alongside recovering PM

Ian Johnson (pictured), a cabin service director in his late 50s, was in St Thomas' intensive care unit in London on a ventilator for ten days before he passed away yesterday.




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British Airways sends its planes to France's 'airport graveyard'

British Airways is set to move its Airbus A380 aircraft to France's Chateauroux Centre Marcel Dassault Airport as the company tries to reduce its operations amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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British Airways Airbus crashes into an Emirates jet as it pulls out from the gate at Dubai airport

The six-month-old Airbus A350 was reversing from the gate, about to take off on a return flight to London, when it smashed into the Emirates Boeing 777 that was parked behind it.




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Balvinder Nijjar's milk firm Freshways to cut the rates on 40 per cent of its dairy farmers' produce

Freshways - the 'largest independent family-run' milk processor in the country - has written to diary farmers telling them they plan to cut rates on 40 per cent of their produce.




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Amy Hart is 'gutted' for former British Airways colleagues after the airline announced redundancies

The former Love Island star, 27, worked as an air hostess for the company prior to finding fame on the ITV2 reality series.




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British Airways wants ALL staff not laid off to sign new contracts

The beleaguered carrier has reportedly asked staff to sign contracts that would allow the airline to fire them without negotiation. It has also warned it could withdraw from major UK airports.




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Affairs between British Airways pilots and cabin crew go on all the time, airline manager admits

Bartek Wytryszczewski (left), a Polish BA cabin crew member, said he was discriminated against because of his sexuality, nationality and because he raised safety concerns at his Heathrow-based job.




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Sabotage or a technical fault? British Airways 777 and 787 are covered in five tons of foam

The Boeing 777 and 787 will be out of action for months after the incident at London's Heathrow on Sunday, which has led to claims of 'sabotage'. But British Airways have said it is due to a technical fault.




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An 'electrifying' exhibition about 'ways of reacting to life'

Is ‘painting life’ really a subject? Or does this exhibition just amount to an agreeable collection of pretty well-known figurative painting?




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Last Paintings at the Gagosian reveals Howard Hodgkin's reputation is soaring says Philip Hensher

After the death of a great artist, their professional life continues for some time. So, a year after the great English painter Sir Howard Hodgkin died in March 2017, new work continues to emerge.