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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.