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Ex-Paralympic cyclist, 55, who glued himself to a British Airways plane appears in court

James Brown, 55, clambered on top of the BA jet at London City airport on October 10 and live-streamed his actions on Facebook exclaiming: 'I am top of a f****** aeroplane - I hate heights'.




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MailOnline takes the controls in a multi-million-pound British Airways Dreamliner simulator

EXCLUSIVE. MailOnline's Ted Thornhill took the first-officer's seat in a 787 sim at BA's Flight Training Centre at Heathrow. And was put through his paces by one of the airline's most senior captains.




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BA reviews planes carrying excess fuel after BBC Panorama revelations it drives up CO2 emissions

It is reported that British Airways churned out an extra 18,000 tonnes of CO2 last year by carrying extra fuel on its aircraft in an industry-wide practice known as 'fuel tankering'.




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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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Thousands of British Airways passengers across US are hit by canceled flights and delays of 23 hours

Thousands of British Airways passengers across the US and around the world have been affected by canceled flights and delays of up to 23 hours after a 'technical issue'.




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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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Mother who launched terrifying attack on long-haul flight faces jail

Boozy Emma Langford boasted that air crew couldn't afford the £4,000 she'd paid for her seat before launching the horrific attack on from London Heathrow to Cape Town last year.




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Passenger tries to open the door on British Airways jet from Heathrow to Saudi Arabia

A man suffering a panic attack tried to open the rear door of British Airway flight 263 from Heathrow to Riyadh on Monday night, before 6ft 7ins Dean Whyte (right) rushed to subdue him.




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Points Guy UK reviews economy on BA, Virgin, American, United and Norwegian between NYC and London

The fliers, who all work for The Points Guy UK, boarded flights operated by British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines, American Airlines and Norwegian - and filmed their experiences.




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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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Murder suspect, 58, appears in court charged with killing mother-of-two

Jayesh Gobar, 35, has appeared at Lewes Crown Court today charged with the murder of Nelly Myers, 58, who was found dead at a detached property in Rotherfield, East Sussex.




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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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Single mother, 47, who attacked three BA cabin crew must wear anti-booze bracelet

Emma Langford from Old Basing, Hampshire, admitted attacking BA staff on the Boeing 747 flight to Cape Town in South Africa, punching the manager and kicking another.




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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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BA cabin crew catch drunk couple in act before take-off

Christopher Pickering, 45, and girlfriend Rebecca Cross, 37, appeared in court after they were spotted drunkenly engaging in 'amorous' foreplay at the back of a plane - before takeoff.




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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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Meghan Markle sneaked back to Vancouver island mansion on £134 budget flight

To their new Canadian neighbours, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex seemed 'just like regular guys'. They were friendly, and, said one, 'went to the Fickle Fig farm shop just like everyone else'.




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BA pilot, 65, blasts 'appalling' family courts amid his 20 year divorce battle with ex-wife

Four-time married Richard Wilmot, 65, who lives on the Isle of Man, says he has asked the European Court of Human Rights to look at his case after he lost court fights and was criticised by judges.




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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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Flying with BA can increase emissions by 46% per passenger compared to rival airlines, Which? claims

The consumer champion looked at six popular international routes from London, which are well served by a variety of carriers, to compare CO2 emissions.




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Billie Faiers slams 'fun sucking' BA staff as she is reprimanded for making noise

The former TOWIE star has flown to the states after her sister Sam, 29, gifted her with the trip, however the ladies and their mum Sue, were left with a sour taste in their mouths




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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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Inside Acumen, which is behind some of the best airline cabin designs in the world

EXCLUSIVE. MailOnline meets Ian Dryburgh and Mike Crump, from London-based Acumen, which has designed cabins for every major airline. They reveal why economy class is so hard to transform...




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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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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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BA cabin crew who battled to save 170 passengers from a burning plane are suing company for £110,000

Marie Dyos (left), Lynette Robinson (right) and Suely Goncalves-McLoughlin say they were left mentally scarred after helping evacuate 170 passengers at Las Vegas McCarran Airport.




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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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Heathrow passengers fume as thick fog grounds flights

British Airways said the fog shrouding West London meant air traffic control had imposed a reduction in the number of flights that could take off and land at Heathrow.




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Piers Morgan jets to LA in first class after joking Susanna Reid is 'much further down the plane'

The Good Morning Britain star, 54, shared a photo of himself on board a British Airways flight after joking that co-host Susanna Reid is 'much further down the plane'.




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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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Mummy Diaries: Billie Faiers sets record straight over her 'fun-sucking' NYC flight after complaints

The reality stars, aged 29 and 30, spoke exclusively to MailOnline ahead of the new series of her hit ITVBe show Sam and Billie Faiers: The Mummy Diaries, which hits screens on Wednesday.




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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.