Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Airways PLC
06 September 2007

                      British Airways Plc (the 'Company')

 Employee Share Schemes - Announcement of transaction in ordinary shares of 25p
                                     each.

Exercise of options

The Company announces that on 5 September 2007, options to acquire ordinary
shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company granted under the Company's
Share Option Plan 1999 had been exercised by executive directors and/or persons
discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMR') as detailed in the table below.

Table 1
Name                        Director/PDMR          Number of shares          Option price
David Lebrecht              PDMR                   32,087                    321p
David Lebrecht              PDMR                   53,435                    262p



The Company also received notification that the directors and/or PDMRs listed
below each sold ordinary shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company on the
London Stock Exchange as set out in the following table:

Table 2
Name                        Director/PDMR   Number of shares     Sale price          Date of sale
David Lebrecht              PDMR            85,522               425.250p            5.9.07



This announcement is made following notification under Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.





Contact:

Alan Buchanan, Company Secretary

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