David Beckham flies home to be with sick father

"David Beckham is flying back to England today to be with his father, who is seriously ill in hospital. Ted Beckham was admitted to Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, east London, last night suffering from a heart attack. He was then transferred to another hospital in the...

Heathrow worker sacked over stud

"A Heathrow Airport worker has been dismissed for wearing a nose stud. Amrit Lalji, 40, of Stanmore, north-west London, who worked for caterers Eurest, said she wore the tiny piercing as a mark of her Hindu faith. She had worn the stud at work for more than a year until a...

Airports under fire over 2,000 job cuts

"BAA, the owner of Britain’s three biggest airports, is planning to cut up to 2,000 jobs, leading airlines to give warning that a lack of staff could result in even poorer service than passengers suffer already,The Times has learnt. Ferrovial, the Spanish company that...

Heathrow airport tries to ban the Queen and 5 MILLION Brits from its premises

This seems a bit silly...you can't really set out an injunction against using ANY KIND OF INFRASTRUCTURE!"The British Airports Authority is seeking an injunction to keep The Camp for Climate Action from protesting at London's Heathrow airport -- an injunction that would ban...

Homeowners to Foot £2.5bn Flood Bill

"Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will be hit with higher household insurance premiums as a second wave of flash floods gives insurers their biggest ever claims bill. As a summer of appalling weather brought another day of travel chaos yesterday, analysts said that...

Heathrow's T4 evacuated

Just in"LONDON (Reuters) - Terminal 4 at London's Heathrow airport was being evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious package was found, passengers said. Advertisement "The tannoy is telling everyone to evacuate the terminal. They're saying a suspect package has been found,"...

At her majesty's pleasure

"My sins, in brief: When the cabin crew refused to radio JFK to see if I'd left my laptop at the gate and also declined to move me to another seat, "an altercation ensued" -- not physical, but verbal, with the flight attendants becoming snootier by the minute and me becoming,...