Traffic & Capacity Statistics - November 1999

British Airways PLC
3 December 1999

                                                                  
          TRAFFIC AND CAPACITY STATISTICS - NOVEMBER 1999

Summary of the headline figures
British Airways mainline scheduled Available Seat Kilometres
(ASKs) in November grew by 0.3 per cent.  Traffic, measured in
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs), grew by 2.1 per cent.
Passenger load factor was 1.2 points higher at 66.6 per cent.
Premium traffic rose strongly again, by 6.5%, with non-premium
traffic up1.3%.

Market conditions
Although trading conditions are still highly competitive, these
are encouraging figures.  Yields remain under pressure. Patterns
of travel for the Millennium period are still unpredictable. With
significant reductions in schedules, capacity for December and
January will be below last year's levels.

Strategic developments
British Airways and Aer Lingus signed a co-operative agreement to
codeshare on 14 routes across the Irish Sea and to eight
continental European destinations. Both airlines' frequent flyers
will be able to earn and redeem miles on each other's networks.
Subsequent to this, on 2 December 1999, Aer Lingus was confirmed
as the ninth member of the oneworld alliance.

British Airways and American Airlines filed an application with
the US Department of Transportation to codeshare on flights
serving some 75 destinations in the UK, USA, Europe and Africa, as
part of their plans to develop a global marketing alliance.

As part of the annual planning process, British Airways is
developing plans to reduce ongoing costs further and to implement
strategic changes in seven key areas. These areas are Gatwick
operations, subsidiaries, domestic routes, cost of sale, product,
aircraft utilisation and people.  Final plans will be in place by
February 2000.

The purchase of CityFlyer Express was completed after British
Airways received approval from the Secretary of State for Trade
and Industry, subject to undertakings which were offered by
British Airways during the Competition Commission's investigation
of the transaction.  There is no requirement for British Airways
to divest slots.  CityFlyer Express's traffic statistics will be
included in this bulletin from December.

Costs
Fuel prices continued to rise, with jet kerosene currently trading
above $240 a tonne, compared to approximately $210 per tonne at
the end of our second quarter.  The level of fuel hedging for the
balance of the financial year is now around 90%.

The Yen continued to strengthen against sterling.  At the end of
November, the value of the yen stood close to Yen163 to the pound,
compared to Yen 175.70 at the end of September 1999.

Other highlights
British Airways has completed its Year 2000 preparations and is
confident of its readiness for the new millennium. Nevertheless,
as a measure of prudence, it has in place comprehensive
contingency plans and will have a monitoring centre activated over
the millennium week-end.

British Airways launched a new £25 million transfer baggage
sorting system at London Gatwick. This is the first major baggage
system to be funded by the airline and is geared to handle around
100 bags per minute at peak times. British Airways moves 6 million
bags per year at Gatwick.

The first operation into London City Airport by an aircraft in
British Airways' livery began on 1 November, when British Regional
Airlines began their 3 per day weekday operation from Sheffield.

British Airways announced pre-tax profits for the second quarter
of £40 million. This figure included £17 million disposal profits
and a £44 million restructuring charge relating to planned
redundancies of around 1000 staff. An interim dividend of 5.1p was
declared.

December 3 , 1999



   BRITISH AIRWAYS MONTHLY TRAFFIC AND CAPACITY STATISTICS
                                                                
                           Month of November Financial year to
                                             date April
                                             through November
                                                 
BRITISH AIRWAYS                  Change                 Change
MAINLINE                            
SCHEDULED SERVICES   1999   1998   (%)      1999   1998   (%)   
                                                                
Passengers carried (000)                                            
UK/Europe            1745   1793  -2.7     16468  16837  -2.2   
Intercontinental     1035   1006  +2.9      9312   9262  +0.5   
Total                2781   2800  -0.7     25780  26099  -1.2   
                                                                
Revenue passenger km (m)
UK/Europe            1541   1567  -1.6     14963  15173  -1.4   
Intercontinental     7541   7326  +2.9     67450  67004  +0.7   
Total                9082   8893  +2.1     82413  82177  +0.3   
                                                                
Available seat km (m)
UK/Europe            2731   2704  +1.0     22492  21923  +2.6   
Intercontinental    10898  10891  +0.1     91656  91193  +0.5   
Total               13629  13595  +0.3    114148 113117  +0.9   
                                                                
Passenger load factor (%)
UK/Europe            56.4   57.9  -1.5 pts   66.5   69.2  -2.7 pts
Intercontinental     69.2   67.3  +1.9 pts   73.6   73.5  +0.1 pts
Total                66.6   65.4  +1.2 pts   72.2   72.6  -0.4 pts
                                                                  
Revenue tonne km (RTK) (m)
Cargo tonne km (CTK)  426    371 +14.8      3010   2895  +3.9   
Total RTK            1328   1258  +5.5     11217  11087  +1.2   
Available tonne km(m)1996   1962  +1.7     16544  16181  +2.2   
                                                                
Overall load         66.5   64.1  +2.4 pts  67.8   68.5  -0.7 pts
factor (%) 
                                                                
                                                                
TOTAL GROUP SCHEDULED SERVICES
(including Deutsche BA, Air Liberte)

Passengers carried   3362   3344  +0.5     30433  30562  -0.4   
(000)
Revenue passenger    9625   9347  +3.0     86611  86063  +0.6   
km (m)
Available seat km(m)14421  14330  +0.6    120380 119122  +1.1   
Total RTK (m)        1382   1304  +6.0     11640  11485  +1.3   
Available tonne km(m)2072   2034  +1.9     17142  16764  +2.3   
                                                                    
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