Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Airways PLC
07 December 2006

                      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 7 December 2006 it was notified that, on 6
December 2006, options to acquire ordinary shares of 25p each in the capital of
the Company granted under the 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

Geoffrey Want             PDMR                      100,636                   157p



The Company also received notification that the directors and/or PDMRs listed
below 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

Geoffrey Want       PDMR                    100,636              499.50p             6.12.06



This announcement is made following notifications under both section 324
Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.

Contact:

Alan Buchanan, Company Secretary

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