British Airways

British Airways

British Airways
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British Airways Fleets	British Airways History

British Airways Information

IATA BA ICAO BAW SHT XMS Callsign SPEEDBIRD SHUTTLE SANTA
Founded	31 March 1974 (after BOAC & BEA merger)
Hubs	London Gatwick Airport London Heathrow Airport
Frequent flyer program	Executive Club Premier (Invite Only)
Member lounge	Concorde Room Galleries First Galleries Club Galleries Arrivals First Lounge Terraces Lounge Executive Club Lounge
Alliance	Oneworld
Fleet size	234 (+51 orders) excl.subsidiaries
Destinations	150 excl.subsidiaries and code-shares
Company slogan	Upgrade to
Headquarters	Waterside, Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, England
Key people	Willie Walsh (MD)
Revenue	GB£8,992,000,000 (2009)
Website	ba.com

British Airways History

British Airways is one of the world’s largest international airlines and is the national carrier of European airlines and member of royal family in United Kingdom. It is located at two main operating bases, one at London Heathrow Airport and secondary base at London Gatwick Airport. It is the subsidiary of IAG (International Consolidated Airlines Group), using fleet of about 240 aircrafts consisting mainly of Airbus and Boeing Aircrafts and franchises with Sun Air (Turkey) and Comair (South Africa). It serves more than 40 million passengers annually to Europe, North America, Latin America, Canada, Africa, Asia and Australia. It flies passenger and cargo flights to about 75 countries and more than 150 destinations from the two main hubs.

This airline has a workforce of more than 50,000 people, the majority of whom are located in the base stations and other staffing offices in hub and regional airports around the globe. With the joint business agreements and code sharing relationships with AMR’S American airlines and members of One-world alliance, it serves flights to an extended network of 400 destinations.

British Airways Financial Report

Year Ended	Passengers Flown	Turnover (£m)	Profit/Loss Before Tax (£m)	Net Profit/Loss (£m)	Basic EPS (p)
31 March 2009	33,117,000	8,992	(401)	(358)	(32.6)
31 March 2008	33,161,000	8,753	883	696	59.0
31 March 2007	33,068,000	8,492	611	438	25.5
31 March 2006 (Restated)*	32,432,000	8,213	616	464	40.4
31 March 2006	35,634,000	8,515	620	467	40.4
31 March 2005	35,717,000	7,772	513	392	35.2
31 March 2004	36,103,000	7,560	230	130	12.1
31 March 2003	38,019,000	7,688	135	72	6.7
31 March 2002	40,004,000	8,340	(200)	(142)	(13.2)
31 March 2001	36,221,000	9,278	150	114	10.5
31 March 2000	36,346,000	8,940	5	(21)	(2.0)
31 March 1999	37,090,000	8,915	225	206	19.5
31 March 1998	34,377,000	8,642	580	460	44.7
31 March 1997	33,440,000	8,359	640	553	55.7
31 March 1996	32,272,000	7,760	585	473	49.4

British Airways Destinations

British Airways Destinations in Africa

East Africa

• Kenya
  • Nairobi - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
• Mauritius
  • Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport
• Tanzania
  • Dar es Salaam - Julius Nyerere International Airport
• Uganda
  • Kampala - Entebbe International Airport

North Africa

• Algeria
  • Algiers - Houari Boumedienne Airport
• Egypt
  • Cairo - Cairo International Airport
  • Sharm el-Sheikh - Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport
• Libya
  • Tripoli - Tripoli International Airport
• Tunisia
  • Tunis - Tunis-Carthage International Airport

Southern Africa

• Angola
  • Luanda - Quatro de Fevereiro Airport
• South Africa
  • Cape Town - Cape Town International Airport
  • Johannesburg - OR Tambo International Airport
• Zambia
  • Lusaka - Lusaka International Airport

West Africa

• Ghana
  • Accra - Kotoka International Airport
• Nigeria
  • Abuja - Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
  • Lagos - Murtala Mohammed International Airport

British Airways Destinations in Americas

Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda
  • Antigua - VC Bird International Airport
• Bahamas
  • Nassau - Lynden Pindling International Airport
• Barbados
  • Grantley Adams International Airport
• Cayman Islands
  • Georgetown - Owen Roberts International Airport
• Dominican Republic
  • Punta Cana - Punta Cana International Airport
• Grenada
  • Grenada - Maurice Bishop International Airport
• Jamaica
  • Kingston - Norman Manley International Airport
  • Montego Bay - Sangster International Airport
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Kitts - Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport
• Saint Lucia
  • Vieux-Fort - Hewanorra International Airport
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Port of Spain - Piarco International Airport
  • Tobago - Crown Point Airport
• Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Providenciales - Providenciales Airport

North America

• Bermuda
  • Ferry Reach - L.F. Wade International Airport
• Canada
  • Calgary - Calgary International Airport
  • Montréal - Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
  • Toronto - Toronto Pearson International Airport
  • Vancouver - Vancouver International Airport
• Mexico
  • Mexico City - Mexico City International Airport
• United States
  • Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
  • Baltimore - Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
  • Boston - Logan International Airport
  • Chicago - O'Hare International Airport
  • Dallas - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
  • Denver - Denver International Airport
  • Houston - George Bush Intercontinental Airport
  • Las Vegas - McCarran International Airport
  • Los Angeles - Los Angeles International Airport
  • Miami - Miami International Airport
  • Newark - Newark Liberty International Airport
  • New York City - John F. Kennedy International Airport
  • Orlando - Orlando International Airport
  • Philadelphia - Philadelphia International Airport
  • Phoenix - Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
  • San Francisco - San Francisco International Airport
  • Seattle - Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
  • Tampa - Tampa International Airport
  • Washington, D.C. - Washington Dulles International Airport

South America

• Argentina
  • Buenos Aires - Ministro Pistarini International Airport
• Brazil
  • Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport
  • São Paulo - São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport

British Airways Destinations in Asia

East Asia

• China
  • Beijing - Beijing Capital International Airport
  • Hong Kong - Hong Kong International Airport
  • Shanghai - Shanghai Pudong International Airport
• Japan
  • Tokyo - Narita International Airport

South Asia

• India
  • Bangalore - Bengaluru International Airport
  • Chennai - Chennai International Airport
  • Delhi - Indira Gandhi International Airport
  • Hyderabad - Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
  • Mumbai - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
• Maldives
  • Malé - Malé International Airport

Southeast Asia

• Singapore
  • Singapore Changi Airport
• Thailand
  • Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi Airport

Southwest Asia

• Bahrain
  • Bahrain International Airport
• Cyprus
  • Larnaca - Larnaca International Airport
  • Paphos - Paphos International Airport
• Israel
  • Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion International Airport
• Kuwait
  • Kuwait International Airport
• Oman
  • Muscat - Muscat International Airport
• Qatar
  • Doha - Doha International Airport
• Saudi Arabia
  • Dammam - King Fahad International Airport Cargo Only
  • Jeddah - King Abdulaziz International Airport
  • Riyadh - King Khalid International Airport
• Turkey
  • Antalya - Antalya Airport
  • Istanbul - Atatürk International Airport
  • İzmir - Adnan Menderes Airport
• United Arab Emirates
  • Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi International Airport
  • Dubai - Dubai International Airport

British Airways Destinations in Europe

• Albania
  • Tirana - Nënë Tereza Airport
• Austria
  • Innsbruck - Innsbruck Airport [seasonal]
  • Salzburg - Salzburg Airport
  • Vienna - Vienna International Airport
• Belgium
  • Brussels - Brussels Airport
• Bulgaria
  • Sofia - Sofia Airport
  • Varna - Varna Airport
• Croatia
  • Dubrovnik - Dubrovnik Airport
• Czech Republic
  • Prague - Ruzyně Airport
• Denmark
  • Copenhagen - Copenhagen Airport
• Finland
  • Helsinki - Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
• France
  • Bordeaux - Mérignac Airport
  • Lyon - Saint-Exupéry Airport
  • Marseille - Provence Airport
  • Mulhouse - EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
  • Nice - Côte d'Azur Airport
  • Paris - Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
  • Toulouse - Blagnac Airport
• Germany
  • Berlin - Berlin Tegel Airport
  • Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf Airport
  • Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport
  • Hamburg - Hamburg Airport
  • Munich - Munich Airport
  • Stuttgart - Stuttgart Airport
• Gibraltar
  • Gibraltar - North Front Airport
• Greece
  • Athens - Athens International Airport
  • Thessaloniki - Macedonia Airport
• Hungary
  • Budapest - Budapest Ferihegy International Airport
• Italy
  • Bologna - Bologna Airport
  • Bari - Palese Airport [seasonal]
  • Cagliari - Elmas Airport [seasonal]
  • Catania - Fontanarossa Airport
  • Genoa - Cristoforo Colombo Airport
  • Milan
    • Malpensa Airport
    • Linate Airport
  • Naples - Capodichino Airport
  • Pisa - Galileo Galilei Airport
  • Rome - Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
  • Turin - Caselle Airport
  • Venice - Venice Marco Polo Airport
  • Verona - Verona Airport
• Luxembourg
  • Findel Airport
• Netherlands
  • Amsterdam - Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
• Norway
  • Oslo - Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
• Poland
  • Warsaw - Frederic Chopin Airport
• Portugal
  • Faro - Faro Airport
  • Lisbon - Portela Airport
• Romania
  • Bucharest - Henri Coanda International Airport
• Russia
  • Moscow - Domodedovo International Airport
  • Saint Petersburg - Pulkovo Airport
• Serbia
  • Belgrade - Nikola Tesla Airport
  • Priština - Priština International Airport
• Spain
  • Barcelona - Barcelona Airport
  • Madrid - Barajas Airport
  • Málaga - Málaga Airport
• Sweden
  • Stockholm - Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
• Switzerland
  • Geneva - Geneva International Airport
  • Zürich - Zürich Airport
• Ukraine
  • Kiev - Boryspil International Airport
• United Kingdom
  • Channel Islands
    • Jersey - Jersey Airport
  • England
    • London
      • London City Airport
      • London Gatwick Airport Hub
      • London Heathrow Airport Hub
    • Manchester - Manchester Airport
    • Newcastle upon Tyne - Newcastle Airport
  • Scotland
    • Aberdeen - Aberdeen Airport
    • Edinburgh - Edinburgh Airport
    • Glasgow - Glasgow International Airport

British Airways Destinations in Oceania

• Australia
  • Sydney - Sydney Airport

British Airways Terminated Destinations

Africa

• East Africa
  • Seychelles - Mahe
  • Tanzania - Arusha
• North Africa
  • Algeria - Hassi Messaoud
  • Egypt - Alexandria, Luxor
  • Morocco - Agadir, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Rabat, Tangier
  • Sudan - Khartoum
• Southern Africa
  • Botswana - Gaborone
  • Malawi - Blantyre, Lilongwe
  • Mozambique - Maputo
  • South Africa - Durban
  • Zimbabwe - Harare
• West Africa
  • Côte d'Ivoire - Abidjan
  • Gambia - Banjul
  • Liberia - Monrovia
  • Nigeria - Kano
  • Senegal - Dakar
  • Sierra Leone - Freetown

Americas

• Caribbean
  • Bahamas - Freeport
  • Costa Rica - San José de Costa Rica
  • Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo
  • Cuba - Havana
  • Panama - Panama City
  • Puerto Rico - San Juan
• North America
  • Mexico - Cancún
  • United States - Anchorage, Charlotte, Detroit, Honolulu, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, San Diego
• South America
  • Chile - Santiago de Chile
  • Colombia - Bogotá
  • Guyana - Georgetown
  • Perú - Lima
  • Venezuela - Caracas

Asia

• Central Asia
  • Kazakhstan - Almaty
  • Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
  • Uzbekistan - Tashkent
• East Asia
  • Japan - Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka
  • South Korea - Seoul
  • Taiwan - Taipei
• Southeast Asia
  • Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
  • Indonesia - Jakarta
  • Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
  • Philippines - Manila
  • Vietnam - Saigon
• South Asia
  • Bangladesh - Dhaka
  • India - Kolkata
  • Pakistan - Islamabad, Karachi
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo
• Southwest Asia
  • Armenia - Yerevan
  • Cyprus - Nicosia
  • Iran - Tehran
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • Jordan - Amman
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • Syria - Aleppo, Damascus
  • Turkey - Ankara, Dalaman
  • Yemen - Aden, Sana'a

Europe

• Azerbaijan - Baku
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo
• Croatia - Split, Zagreb
• Estonia - Tallinn
• France - Ajaccio, Bastia, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg
• Georgia - Tbilisi
• Germany - Bremen, Cologne, Dresden, Hanover
• Greece - Corfu, Heraklion, Mykonos, Rhodes
• Iceland - Reykjavík
• Ireland - Cork, Dublin, Shannon
• Italy - Cagliari, Palermo
• Latvia - Riga
• Lithuania - Vilnius
• Macedonia - Skopje
• Malta - Luqa
• Netherlands - Rotterdam
• Poland - Kraków, Poznań
• Portugal - Funchal, Porto
• Russia - Yekaterinburg
• Spain - Alicante, Bilbao, Fuerteventura, Granada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Valencia
• Sweden - Gothenburg
• Switzerland - Berne
• United Kingdom - Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Durham, Guernsey, Hull, Inverness, Leeds/Bradford, Nottingham, Sheffield-City, Southampton

Oceania

• Australia - Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth
• Fiji - Nadi
• New Zealand - Auckland, Christchurch

British Airways Fleets

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Passengers					Base
			F	J	W	M	Total
Airbus A318-100	2	—	—	32	—	—	32	LCY
Airbus A319-100	33	—	—	36	—	77	113	LHR/LGW
			—	12	—	113	125
			—	—	—	132	132
Airbus A320-200	41	-	—	52	—	83	135	LHR
			—	12	—	143	155
			—	—	—	162	162
Airbus A321-200	11	—	—	67	—	86	153	LHR
			—	12	—	168	180
			—	—	—	188	188
Airbus A380-800	—	12	TBA					LHR
Boeing 737–400	19	—	—	38	—	101	139	LGW
			—	10	—	137	147
			—	—	—	153	153
Boeing 747-400	55	—	14	70	30	177	291	LHR
			14	70	30	185	299
			14	52	36	235	337
Boeing 767-300ER	21	—	—	24	24	141	189	LHR
			—	134	—	95	229
			—	18	—	230	248
			—	—	—	252	252
Boeing 777–200	3	—	17	48	24	127	216	LHR
Boeing 777-200ER	43	—	—	40	24	216	280	LGW
			—	48	24	203	275	LHR/LGW
			14	48	40	124	226	LHR/LGW
			12	48	32	127	221	LHR
Boeing 777-300ER	4	4	14	56	44	183	297	LHR
Boeing 787–8	—	8	—	42	51	90	183	LHR
Boeing 787–9	—	16	TBA					LHR TBA
Total	234	40

Aircraft Operated

Aircraft Introduced Retired Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 1976 2003 BAC One-Eleven 1974 1993 Boeing 707–400 1974 1984 Boeing 737–200 1974 2001 Boeing 747–100 1974 1999 Boeing 747–200 1977 2001 Hawker Siddeley Trident 1974 1989 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 1975 1985 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1974 1999 Vickers VC10 1974 1983 Vickers Vanguard 1974 1975 Vickers Viscount 1974 1982 BAe 146–200 1989 1994 BAe ATP 1989 1994 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 1988 1999

Aircraft Introduced Retired Airbus A318 2009   Airbus A319 1999   Airbus A320-100 1988 2007 Airbus A320-200 1989   Airbus A321 2004   Boeing 737–300 1988 2009 Boeing 737–400 1990   Boeing 737–500 1996 2009 Boeing 747-400 1989   Boeing 757–200 1983 2010 Boeing 767–200 1993 1996 Boeing 767-300ER 1991   Boeing 777-200ER 1995   Boeing 777-300ER 2010   Dash 8–100 1993 1998 Saab 340 1990 1991

British Airways Baggage Allowance

Hand Baggage

Passenger	Type of Baggage Allowed	Weight
Adults and children(aged 2 and over)	One bag and One laptop-sized bag, handbag or briefcase	23kg (51lbs).
Infants (under 2 years)	One bag (for items your infant may require during the flight)	You must be able to lift the bag into the overhead locker unaided.

 

	Adults and children (aged 12 years and over)	Children (aged 2 - 11)	Infants under 2 years
British Airways First Club World	Three standard-sized bags	Same as adult allowance	One standard- sized bag
World Traveller Plus Club Europe	Two standard-sized bags
World Traveller Euro Traveller Domestic	One standard-sized bag (except Gold and Silver)

 

	Adults and children (aged 12 years and over)	Children (aged 2 - 11)	Infants under 2 years
British Airways First Club World	Three standard-sized bags	Same as Adult allowance	One standard- sized bag
World Traveller Plus World Traveller	Two standard-sized bags

 

British Airways Items Forbidden
Type	Example
Disabling devices	mace, pepper spray
gas cylinders	NA
Flammable liquids	paint, petrol, solvents, varnish
Flammable solids	firelighters
British Airways Restricted items
Explosives	ammunition
Heat-producing	underwater torches, soldering irons
Mobility aids	wheelchairs, powered devices
British Airways Restricted Baggage needing no notification
Non-radioactive medicinal	hairsprays, perfumes, colognes, medicines
Devices containing lithium cells or batteries	laptop computers, cameras, camcorders

British Airways Check-In

Step No	To Do
Step No 1	Check Flight and Passenges Details
Step No 2	Select Number of Bags
Step No 3	Confirm Your Seat
Step No 4	Issue Your Boarding Pass
Step No 5	View Check-in Summery

British Airways Contact & Phone Number

British Airways Contact & Phone Number for United Kingdom

British Airways By phone	Telephone:  0844 493 0 747 (from the UK)         +44 191 490 7901 (outside the UK)  Fax: +44 (0)1787 881405  Mon-Sun 0730-2000 hours
British Airways By post	British Airways Executive Club  PO Box 111  Sudbury  Suffolk  CO10 6FB  UK

British Airways Contact & Phone Number for United States of America

British Airways By phone	Telephone: 1 800 452 1201 (from the USA)        +1 718 335 7070 (outside the USA)  Daily 0730-2000 Eastern
British Airways By post	British Airways Executive Club  PO Box 690457  East Elmhurst, NY 11369-0457  USA

British Airways Contact & Phone Number for India

British Airways By phone

Telephone:  +91 124 4120 789 Fax: +91 124 2540 547 Attn: Exec Club Mon-Sat 0900-1800 hours