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

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%.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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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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'.

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.

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.

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.

Gilbert Ott, who runs the flight tips site God Save The Points, said that the global crisis means that 'up to 50 to 60 seats on every flight that would usually be filled are currently going empty'.

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.

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.

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.

British tourists are being stranded abroad, from Morocco (left) to Benidorm (top right), and face a battle to return home as  airlines lock down and limit flights due to global coronavirus quarantines.

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.

The incident will be shown on Wednesday's episode of the family's hit ITVBe show, which sees the sisters confess to being 'a bit merry' during the transatlantic flight to NYC.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

The Hayward Gallery has reopened after two years’ renovation with an exhibition of the great German photographer Andreas Gursky

In its 250th year, the Royal Academy has undergone a very substantial redevelopment at the hand of David Chipperfield, who designed the lauded Neues Museum in Berlin.

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.

From the first moment Western explorers encountered the people of the Pacific islands in the late 18th century, they recognised they were dealing with something special.

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.

You’ve certainly seen Martin Parr’s work many times, even if you weren’t aware of it.

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

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson's work is grand, often spectacular, and richly humane.

Antony Gormley has the honour of having created a work of art much more famous than he is.

The Turner Prize has been a little bit grim in recent years, often showcasing artists with a particular political agenda. I'm not very convinced by some of the art promoted in this way.

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

Amazingly, this is the first exhibition of Aubrey Beardsley's work at the Tate since 1923.

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.

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

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.

Tracy Turner says her 'life has changed forever' after she sustained crushed bones, back and neck fractures on the machine at the waterpark attached to the Coral Sea Aqua Club Hotel in Egypt.

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.

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.