The Balpa union warned there may be more strikes following those scheduled to take place next week. British Airways warned pilots late last night that walking out would mean losing travel perks.

British Airways has been placed near the bottom of worldwide airline rankings. The news comes before almost 800 BA flights will be cancelled on Monday and Tuesday as a result of pilots taking strike action.

Pilots for the major carrier began their 48 strike on Monday - grounding most fleets and causing chaos for jetsetters.

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CHRIS FOY IN TOKYO: Eddie Jones and his squad landed at Narita Airport - 66km east of Tokyo - at 1.46pm local time, but then encountered the disruptive aftermath of Typhoon Faxia.

Almost 195,000 passengers had their travel plans plunged into chaos after pilots went on a two-day strike. But the disruption is set to continue after the strike ended at midnight.

The airline, which operates 850 flights a day, said that it is planning on operating more than 90 per cent of its services, but warned it will take 'some time' to return to a 'completely normal flight schedule.'

Pilots union Balpa will lead its members in a strike, after British Airways was forced to cancel up to one in 10 flights today as a result of the industrial action.

Analysts calculated BA's group operates 77 monopoly routes out of Heathrow and return flight to Osaka costs £838 but would cost £80 if there was competition, analysts claimed.

Tens of thousands of passengers are expected to be affected by the disruption on September 27. The 24-hour walkout follows a two-day strike this week when 1,700 flights were cancelled.

The Channel 5 show British Airways 24/7: Access All Areas aired last night and extolled the virtues of the newly-improved premium services - amid continued strike chaos.

EXCLUSIVE: British Airways has applied to a court in London to launch its own class action for victims of the hack - but with the condition that claimants must join within 17 weeks of its opening.

All airlines using the plane have now been slapped with a safety directive by the flight regulator, the European Aviation Safety Agency. Budget airline easyJet has 31 of the aircraft in its fleet.

The 29-year-old five-time European Tour golf winner was arrested on his return from the World Golf Championships-FedEx St Jude Invitational on a flight from Nashville to London in July.

A strike planned by British Airways pilots on September 27 in a dispute over pay has been called off, Balpa said. General Secretary at BALPA called for 'common sense to prevail'.

By the time the British Airline Pilots' Association had scrapped its strike yesterday, the airline had already called off 800 journeys and reassigned customers to different flights.

Journalists were meant to depart Heathrow for Cape Town on Friday evening - two days before Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their son Archie are expected to jet off on their commercial plane.

Fans have gone wild over a rare sighting of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's mystery nanny during their tour of Africa.

ITV presenter Charlotte Cross, from the Midlands, accused British Airways of sexism on Twitter after receiving a refund addressed to her husband despite her being the lead passenger.

Valdenize Barford, 31, tried to board a BA flight from Rhodes to London with her husband and their 17-month-old son but cabin crew suspected that the bites on the boy's face were signs of chicken pox.

The Duchess of Sussex was seen cradling four-month old Archie at Cape Town International Airport in South Africa today as they made their way to a scheduled British Airways flight to Johannesburg.

Furious passengers took to social media on Thursday night to tear into BA for an apparent lack of information when they landed hundreds of miles from the south of Spain.

The British Airways plane filled with smoke and had to make an emergency landing in Basle, Switzerland. Another plane was sent to pick up the 165 stranded passengers.

British Airways has started flights to Bergamo, some 30 miles north-east of Milan. Anwer Bati visited the lesser-known city and found it to be one of the most beautiful in Italy.

British Airways stewardess Natalie Flindall has been suspended after her boyfriend allegedly got 'hammered' on in-flight drinks to Singapore and had fight with the pilot at their overnight hotel.

Carole Farr was jailed today at Reading Crown Court after she admitted plundering the exclusive BA Clubs and using the money to pay for business class flights, lavish holidays and hotel stays.

A man, 80, has died on-board a British Airways Boeing 777 flight travelling from London Heathrow to Bangkok. The passenger reportedly died from a heart attack, an hour before landing.

Demand for tickets to see England take on South Africa in the final in Japan on Saturday has seen prices soar, with some seats costing well over £10,000 on re-sale sites (pictured, fans in London).

The website Skyscanner revealed that if rugby supporters leave tomorrow and board a flight to St Petersburg in Russia, then take an internal flight to Moscow the following day, then a flight to Tokyo.

Victoria Parker, 41, and Paul Dempsey, 44, of Peterborough, had been on a romantic getaway to Greece last month when they were escorted off their British Airways plane.

Jessica Librati, 30, from London, ate the 'red in the middle' meat at a buffet. She contracted violent gastroenteritis and was sick throughout her holiday.

Sancher Harpe, 44, from Russell Island, Queensland, Australia, flew with British Airways to Newcastle from Sydney. Sancher flew home to be with her family for her stepmother's funeral.

Pilot strikes this Christmas on British Airways could be cancelled after union bosses allegedly admitted they were not likely to get a better pay deal for members.

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'.

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.

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'.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'.

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.

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

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%.

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.