British Airways

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The ‘queen of the skies’ has been superseded by smaller, more efficient jets

EU planning future rules amid debate over social distancing on flights

Government warns holidaymakers off booking trips until after lockdown

The aviation industry is concerned it will not bear the weight of the crisis, and some companies could go bust without government help.

Irish airline boss Michael O’Leary says tax deferral for rival carrier breaches state aid laws

Government offers lifeline as budget carrier avoids becoming tenth European airline to collapse in past two years

UK’s national airline drops to second-last place in Which? long-haul rankings

Last-minute intervention from Downing Street fails to end dispute over pay and conditions which will see majority of planes grounded

More than 100 flights are cancelled and hundreds more delayed after airline suffers major computer outage

British Airways has asked futurologists - and the public - to forecast the next 100 years of aviation

Airline loses appeal meaning industrial action could take place as early as this month

Airline data breach was first major case under new GDPR rules

Airline facing legal battle over its blanket ban on transporting animals for medical research

Pilots on Canada-bound plane reportedly needed oxygen masks

IAG hoping to poach low-cost rival which has revolutionised transatlantic travel

UK planes may be grounded unless a post-Brexit aviation deal is agreed

Chief executive Willie Walsh says technician may have caused bank holiday travel chaos after disconnecting cable

IT failure, not cost-cutting measures, blamed for mass cancellations

Passengers will have less space than on Ryanair as airline steps up competition with budget fliers

Lower fuel costs offset 'slight dip in revenue' and a hit from the slump in the pound

Monument's sparse, unavoidable presence in the city has prompted criticism as well as praise

Airline's reputation is flying high, but tech giants fall and the BBC crashes out of the top 20

Initial investigation into the blaze in Las Vegas suggests that the engine failure was uncontained

Willy Walsh has shown with Iberia that he can rationalise the legacy national airlines

British Airways jet hit 745mph on what may have been the quickest transatlantic crossing since Concorde

Flights over Iraq will be re-routed due to the threats after Flight MH17 'changed everything'

BBC2's British Airways insight is a bit of a letdown – especially for those who fly in the cheap seats

Cara Delevingne among supporters of campaign against deportation of schoolgirl and her family

Three executives from GlaxoSmithKline, BP and BA's parent company miss out on £3.6m