BA

BA Boeing 757-236 at BA's Heathrow maintenance base

British Airways is the UK’s largest international scheduled airline. We fly our customers at convenient times to the best located airports across the world.

We are one of the world’s leading global premium airlines. Our principal place of business is London with significant presence at Heathrow, Gatwick and London City. Some 20 million people live within commuting distance of these airports, on the doorstep of the City of London, the world’s largest premium travel market.

We also operate a worldwide air cargo business, largely in conjunction with our scheduled passenger services. Operating one of the most extensive international scheduled airline route networks, together with our joint business agreement, codeshare and franchise partners, we fly to more than 400 destinations worldwide. In the nine months to December 2010, we carried over 24 million passengers.

We support the UK economy by providing vital arteries for trade and investment, meeting the demand for business travel and leisure travel for holidays and family reunions. In the nine months to December 2010, we earned £6.7 billion in revenue. Passenger traffic accounted for 87 per cent of this revenue, while 8 per cent came from cargo and 5 per cent from other activities. We carried 570 tonnes of cargo to destinations in Europe, the Americas and throughout the world. At the end of December 2010 we had 240 aircraft in service.