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Outraged film producer slams British Airways after finding her £4,700 premium economy seat stained

Lucy Darwin (left) says she spent a whopping £4,700 on return flights to New York with the airline for her and her husband. The couple were travelling to the Big Apple to attend a film festival.




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Chaos for BA passengers after flight planning computer crashes

Thousands of British Airways passengers have been stranded after the airline's flight planning computers crashed with some passengers returning to the UK 24 hours late.




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Chaos as computer glitch grounds BA flights

Thousands of British Airways passengers are stranded after the airline's flight plan management computer crashed, with flights from the US to Gatwick and Heathrow worst affected.




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'I don't want to put baby on floor' says mother who booked a premium BA flight seat

Kate Haussauer, 34, is due to travel with her baby son and husband from Heathrow Airport to Toronto on Saturday. She was told that the planes would not have safe baskets for babies.




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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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IAG chief executive Willie Walsh, 58, will retire in June

Former pilot Willie Walsh will step down from the role and board of IAG on March 26 and retire on June 30, before being succeeded by Iberia chief executive Luis Gallego.




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Qantas will NOT ban flights to China amid coronavirus outbreak

Qantas will NOT ban flights to China amid coronavirus outbreak




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Missguided shopper who bought £36 mesh dress is left '£750 out of pocket'

British Airways flight attendant Lily Richardson, 20, from Ditton, Kent, splashed out on the black mesh bardot dress from the retail giant for a night out with friends on Friday.




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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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Coronavirus means travel deals galore - but would you snap them up?

A growing number of bargain deals are emerging. Skyscanner is currently promoting dozens of cut-price flights as airlines battle it out to keep passenger numbers up.




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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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Britain's usually busy nightlife strips resemble ghost towns amid coronavirus outbreak

Main nightclub streets in Leeds and Birmingham were deserted last night as most revellers chose to stay home in a bid to avoid catching the Covid-19 coronavirus.




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Donald Trump's UK travel ban piles pressure on BA as Virgin Atlantic demands £7.5billion bailout

Donald Trump's decision to include the UK in his Europe-wide travel ban in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus could have huge consequences for the struggling British Airways.




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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 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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Thibaut Courtois and Ian Poulter join Formula One stars in virtual race as Esports takes over

Well, I thought I would spend Sunday telling you how Lewis Hamilton had won the Bahrain Grand Prix. And then on to a gin and tonic the size of an Olympic swimming pool with a few pals.




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Coronavirus: UK airports could be shut within weeks after airlines ground fleets

Flatlining footfall could see UK airports shut within weeks, with plummeting passenger numbers forcing airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair to ground their whole fleet.




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Bailout of the giants: Biggest firms put thousands of staff on furlough - and we face £60bn bill 

British Airways, Nissan and Arcadia have joined McDonald's and Primark in furloughing UK staff, with experts fearing that 6.1million private sector workers could be furloughed.




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How your BA and Virgin Atlantic air miles can still soar - without you having to leave your home

Every week Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don't have to. This week, he reveals how to earn air miles without leaving home.




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Confused about what airlines are doing during the coronavirus crisis? We give you the plane talking

With the Government now advising British nationals to avoid all non-essential journeys 'for an indefinite period', here's the latest information for air travellers caught up in the chaos.




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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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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.




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The Renaissance Nude exhibition at the Royal Academy is not just enjoyable, but thought-provoking

Our ideas about what the naked human body means probably amount to two – sex and suffering. Either the concentration-camp victim or the centrefold.




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Tate Modern's Natalia Goncharova exhibition may be engaging... but it could have been better

One of the most positive developments in recent culture is the rediscovery of artists who didn't necessarily look like their contemporaries' idea of an artist.




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UK weather heat wave Glastonbury south west hottest Thursday Friday London south east Saturday

Sunbathers were pictured basking in the heat on the south coast, with temperatures in Bournemouth already pushing 80F (27C).




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Evidence of Egyptian pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut's alleged affair is uncovered in hidden wall carvings

Evidence of Egyptian pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut's alleged affair with a local is hinted at in hidden wall carvings in C5 documentary: The Nile: Egypt's Great River With Bettany Hughes.




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Mauritania 0-0 Angola: Geraldo has last-minute goal ruled out

Angola and Mauritania drew 0-0 in Group E of the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday, leaving both sides facing a battle to advance to the knockout stages. It was a second draw for Angola.




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Wilfried Zaha refuses to rule out Arsenal transfer

Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha has broken his silence on a potential £40million move to Arsenal and refused to rule out the prospect of joining the team he supported as a boy.




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Egypt 0-1 South Africa: Mohamed Salah in tears as hosts are knocked out of African Cup of Nations

South Africa stunned hosts Egypt 1-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations.Seven-time winners Egypt produced a lacklustre display and were punished by Thembinkosi Lorch.




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Alex Rodriguez chats about missing fiancée Jennifer Lopez who has '3 more shows to go' on tour

The pop diva spent three nights at the Regnum Carya Hotel's luxurious five-bedroom, bulletproof Crown Villa in Antalya




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Tutankhamun's coffin is taken out of sterilisation tent after first leaving tomb 97 years ago

The golden outer coffin of Tutankhamun has been removed from its sterilisation tent before it undergoes a painstaking eight-month restoration process. It is in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.




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NYT publisher reveals how Trump planned NOT to warn paper Egypt was about to arrest their reporter

NYT's publisher revealed a never-before told story on Monday where he said Donald Trump intentionally withheld knowledge that one of their reporters was going to be arrested in Egypt.




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They once ruled all of Egypt, but Africa's 'Black Pharaohs' have been overlooked, says a new show 

New Channel 4 documentary, Lost Pharaohs Of The Nile, examines the overlooked history of 'Black Pharaohs' living in the Kingdom of Kush, now known as Sudan.




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JAN MOIR had a sneak preview at the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb

JAN MOIR: To speak a dead man's name, the pharaohs believed, was to make him live again. Next month, some of the priceless treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb will arrive in London.




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Man is killed and another loses a leg after jumping from a train when they are found without tickets

Mohamed Eid was killed and Ahmed Mohamed lost his leg after jumping from a moving No.934 train from Alexandria to Luxor, Egypt, when they were found without tickets. They could not afford £3 fine.




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Queues expected for Tutankhamun exhibition as Saatchi Gallery

The Saatchi Gallery has been criticised for its £37.50 ticket price to its show Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, with claims it is Britain's most expensive exhibition.




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Drunk couple downed duty-free vodka on Thomas Cook flight

James Petford, 39, and Margaret McGuigan, 38, of Birmingham, were separated on the packed flight after they were caught downing vodka from their duty free stash and causing mayhem.




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Depictions of Tutankhamun's wife Ankhesenamun influenced 20th century films, claims Egyptologist

EXCLUSIVE: Tarek el-Awady, 55, the curator of the Tutankhamun: exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery said that modern depictions of Cleopatra resemble Ankhesenamun.




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Veteran, 83, who met Prince Harry and Meghan Markle jokes they 'singled me out because I'm handsome'

Monty Murrell, 83, from Basildon, who joined the army in 1954 before serving for seven years, was one of the many veterans who joined the Remembrance ceremony attended by the royals.




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Mohamed Salah receives ankle treatment while on Egypt duty ahead of Liverpool vs Crystal Palace

Mohamed Salah has stepped up his bid to be fit in time for the return of the Premier League, after a re-occurrence of his troublesome ankle injury.




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Demi Rose puts on a sultry display in a barely there metallic bikini during a glam getaway

The glamour model, 24, left nothing to the imagination as she flaunted her incredible curves while posing in a tiny string bikini while at The Dead Sea.




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Ancient Egyptian mummy Takabuti died after being STABBED in the back in her 20s

Takabuti, the famous ancient Egyptian mummy on display at the Ulster Museum, suffered a violent death from a knife attack, a team of British experts have found.




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Hidden chambers found at the 3,400-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun

A team of archaeologists, led by former Egyptian minister of antiquities, Mamdouh Eldamaty from Ain Shams University, used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to make their discovery.




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Amy Hart and Jade Thirlwall turn out for the gala night performance of The Prince of Egypt

Celebrities including Amy Hart and Jade Thirlwall turned out in force on Tuesday to attend the gala night performance at the West End's Dominion Theatre in London.




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'Taj on Swan' billionaire Indian couple claim daughter bullied at Institut Le Rosey

Pankaj and Radhika Oswal claim the Institut Le Rosey, an exclusive Swiss school with annual fees of $200,000, failed to adequately protect their daughter, 15.




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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Should I risk going out - or drive myself mad at home?

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Arriving at a lunch last week, my host introduced me to the other guests as 'a coronavirus denier'.This was because I went to a party with people who had been to Milan.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Naomi Campbell's knife crime lesson about her uncle's tragic fate is inspiring

AMANDA PLATELL: Naomi Campbell delivered a message of hope to inner-city secondary school children living in an area blighted by gang violence, near where she herself grew up.