In pictures: Grounded planes and empty UK airports

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Grounded planes and deserted terminals A look at UK airports like we have never seem them before

Image copyrightThe airline's chief executive Alex Cruz said the industry was facing a"crisis of global proportions" worse than that caused by the Sars virus or 9/11Virgin Atlantic has written to staff to see if they want to work at the new NHS Nightingale hospital in east LondonThe US has imposed a travel ban on all

European countries - including the UK and the Republic of IrelandGatwick Airport said it would be shutting its North Terminal on 1 April to cope with the drop in passenger demandLondon City Airport has closed until further notice and said the airfield would be offered to the government to help the nearby NHS Nightingale

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