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Sunday, 26 March 2017

The Guardian

• Please bring back my old British Airways | Victoria Coren MitchellFar from chasing the budget market, the airline should be restoring its reputation for qualityIt must be a busy time in the PR department at British Airways. Stories have been flowing through the press about that airline almost daily, waxing and waning in appeal like a good news/bad news joke.Last week, the information that “BA is launching £86 transatlantic flights” actually appeared in a national paper’s headline; it must have been champagnes aclink in the department that day. That’s a headline perfectly designed to get a million fingers tapping on keyboards in search of such excellent value...

Birmingham Mail

• Watch: Birmingham Airport baggage handlers caught THROWING suitcases into plane Angry passenger filmed scenes involving Ryanair passenger plane on his mobile phone

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Watch massive Airbus Beluga come in to land at Hawarden The huge aircraft dotted down in Flintshire

The York Press

• Pilot walks away from crash landing AN incident in which a plane missed the runway of a North Yorkshire airfield caused the aircraft “significant damage”, an accident investigation has found.

Other News Sources

• You can fly in your own private three-room suite on this luxurious aircraft Fly with Etihad’s ‘The Residence’ from Heathrow