Flying high

Airport star Jeremy Spake returns to Heathrow

-  HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN

Spake at Heathrow

NEW FACTUAL

The Airport: Back in the Skies

Monday, 8.30pm (times vary), BBC1

Jeremy Spake shot to fame in the 1990s when he featured on Airport, one of the BBC's very first docusoaps.

At the time, he was working at Heathrow as a ground services manager for Russian airline Aeroflot, and now he revisits the airport, taking us behind the scenes as the aviation industry recovers from the pandemic, in a new six-part BBC1 series.

We checked in with Spake, 52, to hear more...