Francesco Stabile told MailOnline at Stansted today that he had 'no idea' about the Government diktat to self-quarantine immediately for a fortnight. after visiting his girlfriend in Italy.

Hundreds of thousands of UK jobs in the tourism, fast food, retail, and leisure sectors could be axed within weeks because of coronavirus (pictured, BA logo on aircraft at London Heathrow Airport).

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

The actor is said to have become enraged with his partner Ashley Moore, 33, after the pair downed free alcohol on a nine-hour flight from Vancouver to Heathrow over the weekend.

The UK's biggest frequent flyer website, Head for Points, alleges that customers trying to cancel bookings made with Avios have not been given an online option to claim a refund.

Easyjet and Virgin Airlines have also been pounded by global travel bans, and BA is reportedly burning £200million each week as 75 per cent of its fleet is grounded.

Passengers from Italy, China and Iran have arrived a Gatwick and Heathrow this week, even as the UK went in to lockdown. Planes from Rome, Beijing and Shanghai have landed.

Respiratory nurse Cheryl Baxter and her husband Ivon were on holiday in Cambodia when Britain went on lockdown and were due to fly home on March 22. Four days later they are now home.

An investigation by Which? found that carriers including British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet are refusing to let passengers cancel and claim a refund on flights which are still scheduled to run.

Alice Percival, 26,was shocked to discover upon boarding her American Airlines flight from Miami to London on Saturday that social distancing measures were not taking place.

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.

British man Daniel Lawrence, 40, from the UK is trapped in Texas after flights home to the UK have been grounded because of the coronavirus. He has four children waiting for him.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Shabnum Sadiq, 39, was employed as a customer care relations manager for BA at Heathrow's Terminal 5. Before falling ill she had told her husband of her fears about catching the virus from passengers.

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.

Hugo, an 18-month-old German short-haired pointer, was so skinny his bones were visible under his skin. He is one of two dogs rescued by Andrea Siddons in Cyprus and flown back to the UK.

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

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.

A show that explored the style’s roots in caricature, including greats such as Lyonel Feininger, would have been more illuminating.

Ten years ago the Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay assembled a vast anthology of extracts from film and TV, mostly a few seconds long. The resulting film runs for 24 hours.

Although Lorenzo Lotto lived in Italy in the 16th century, and was surrounded by a culture of many great painters, his work stands out for its thought, originality and intelligent observation.

In a way, the work of the American artist Jeff Koons is the most terrific dare. Of course, if you saw a porcelain model of a ballerina in your great-aunt’s cabinet, you might call it kitsch, or bad taste.

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

It’s quite hard to say just what manga is. The attempt to define it has defeated many observers.

It’s 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci’s death.

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.

It's 350 years since Rembrandt died, and museums around the world have been marking it with general or specific exhibitions of his work.

Though the group of 19th-century British painters known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were all men, women occupied unusually prominent positions in their world.

Jared Kushner presented his Peace to Prosperity plan in Bahrain on Wednesday, but the event was skipped by both Israel and Palestine while many Arab states sent only junior ministers to attend.

Mohamed Salah has slammed his Egypt team-mate Amr Warda after he was accused of sexual harassment, insisting 'no means no', but added he 'shouldn't be sent straight to the guillotine'.

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.

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.

Geraldine Thomas, 54, of Bargoed, Caerphilly, spent thousands of pounds on all-inclusive breaks to Egypt after lying that she lived alone. Thomas was secretly living with her partner Raymond Adams.

Alison Sonnex, 54, and husband Clive Eversfield, 60, of Ramsgate, Kent, fell ill after dining at the Royal Tulip beach resort at Marsa Alam in April 2018 and Ms Sonnex later died in hospital.

Policewoman Katie Miles, 38, could lose her job after being caught out trying to claim over a fake bout of food poisoning on a holiday in Sharm-el-Sheik, Eygpt. Ms Miles is pictured above riding on a camel.

Brooke Crannaford, 26, from Melbourne was visiting a village off the Nile River when she got the tattoo. She was rushed to hospital after she lost feeling in her hand and her tattoo grew blisters.

Magdy Eskander, 62, is accused of placing his hands on the girls' private areas while blocking their mothers' view at Darlington Memorial Hospital. In 2017 he was cleared of all charges.

Public Health England has said people are returning from the Hurghada region on the east coast of Egypt with a Shia toxin-producing strain of the food poisoning bug E.coli, which can turn deadly.

DOMINIC KING IN BOSTON: Klopp has warned about the perils of football's increasingly crammed calendar and used Mane's workload as evidence of the current excess.

Richard Holt and Lara Wilcocks, from Merseyside, have been at their son Cillian's bedside for 21 days following a family holiday at the Jaz Bluemarine Resort in Hurghada, Egypt.

Colonel Edward Marcus was at the centre of murderous plans to assassinate King George III and he has found fresh fame on televison today - in Poldark.

Bettany Hughes told FEMAIL that she was 'terrified' crawling through tunnels 30 metres beneath the Great Pyramid in Giza for her new Channel 5 show, Egypt's Greatest Treasures.

Sofinar Grigoryan, known as Safinaz, was accused of 'inciting debauchery' by Egyptian officials after videos of her performing on stage with a woman wearing a bikini were shared online.

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

A group of Britons who were holidaying in Egypt are launching legal action against a five-star hotel after claiming they were struck down with gastric illness last month.

Jennifer Lopez has played her stadium-packing shows all over the globe, but she's never played in Egypt before. She changed that on Friday with a performance in the Middle Eastern nation.

WILL KELLEHER: Four Flags adorn the top of Lewis Ludlam's Twitter profile. Those of Guyana, Palestine, Egypt and England represent the heritage of this surprise World Cup package.