British Airways PLC
19 July 2007
BRITISH AIRWAYS Plc - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007
At the Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2007, the following resolutions
were duly passed as special resolutions
AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES
THAT the proposed amendments to the Articles of Association as produced to the
meeting and initialled by the Chairman thereof for the purposes of
identification be and are hereby adopted as the Articles of Association of the
Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of the Company's existing
Articles of Association.
PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
THAT the Company be and is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised for
the purposes of Section 166 of the Companies Act 1985 to make market purchases
(within the meaning of section 163(3) of the Companies Act 1985) of its ordinary
shares upon and subject to the following conditions:
(i) the maximum number of ordinary shares which are authorised to be
purchased shall be such number as represents 10 per cent of the aggregate
nominal amount of the Company's issued ordinary share capital as at the
date of the passing of this resolution;
(ii) the maximum price, exclusive of any expenses, which may be
paid for any ordinary share shall be the higher of:
(a) an amount equal to 105 per cent of the average of the middle
market quotations for the Company's ordinary shares as derived from
the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business
days immediately preceding the date on which such shares are
contracted to be purchased; and
(b) the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the
highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange Daily
Official List at the time that the purchase is carried out.
(iii) the minimum price, exclusive of any expenses, which may be paid
for any ordinary share shall not be less than the nominal value
of such ordinary share at the time of the purchase; and
(iv) the authority conferred by this resolution shall, unless renewed
prior to such time, expire on the date falling 15 months after the
passing of this resolution or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the
next Annual General Meeting of the Company save that the Company
may before such expiry enter into a contract of purchase under
which such purchase may be completed or executed wholly or partly
after the expiry of this authority.
In accordance with Rule 9.6.2, the following documents have today been delivered
to the Document Viewing Facility at The UK Listing Authority:
Special resolution to amend the Articles of Association together with the New
Articles of Association.
Alan Buchanan
Company Secretary
19 July 2007
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