Director changes

British Airways PLC
14 September 2001



British Airways PLC 14 September, 2001

DIRECTOR CHANGES

In accordance with Chapter 16 of The Listing Rules, British Airways announces
the appointment with effect from 1 October 2001 of Captain Michael Jeffery as
an additional Director to its main Board. Captain Jeffery will hold a
non-executive appointment but will chair the Board's Safety Review Committee
as predicted in the announcement made on 16 May 2001.

Captain Jeffery's interests in the securities of British Airways and other
information as required under paragraph 16.4 of The Listing Rules, are below.

This appointment follows the retirement of Captain Colin Barnes from the Board
on 30 September 2001.

Information required on the Appointment of a New Director:

Captain Michael Denis Jeffery ('the Director')


 1. Details of all directorships held by the Director in any other publicly
    quoted company at any time in the previous five years, indicating dates of
    retirement or resignation where applicable.


        Current Directorships:          None

        Past Directorships:             None


 2. Details of any unspent convictions in relation to indictable offences.


        Not applicable.


 3. Details of any bankruptcies or individual voluntary arrangements of the
    Director?


        Not applicable.


 4. Details of any receiverships, compulsory liquidations, creditors' voluntary
    liquidations, administrations, company voluntary arrangements or any
    composition or arrangement with its creditors generally or any class of
    its creditors of any company of which the Director was a director with an
    executive function at the time of or within the 12 months preceding such
    events.


        Not applicable.


 5. Details of any compulsory liquidations, administrations or partnership
    voluntary arrangements of any partnerships of which the Director was a
    partner at the time of or within the 12 months preceding such event.


        Not applicable.


 6. Details of receiverships of any asset of the Director or of any partnership
    of which the Director was a partner at the time of or within the 12 months
    preceding such event.


        Not applicable.


 7. Details of any public criticisms of the Director by any statutory or
    regulatory authorities (including recognised professional bodies) and
    whether the Director has ever been disqualified by a court from acting as
    a director of a company or from acting in the management or conduct of the
    affairs of any company.


        Not applicable.



        Captain Michael Jeffery: Interests in the securities of British
        Airways Plc



1.   Ordinary shares subject to no restrictions:                           2624

2.   Ordinary shares subject to restrictions (Profit Share):                  0

3.  Ordinary Share Options (Nil paid for grant):

Date Granted    Number of Options       Exercise Price     Exercise From

9 June 1993           3412                      293p       9 June 1996
1 July 1994           2688                      372p       1 July 1997
11 August 1994       35648                      419p       11 August 1997
30 June 1995          8797                      405p       30 June 1998
26 August 1999       40609                      394p       26 August 2002
28 June 2000         42684                      380p       28 June 2003

Total               133838

4. Captain Jeffery holds no options under the British Airways Savings Related
   Share Option Scheme 1998 and or the British Airways Savings Related Share
   Option Scheme 2000.

5. Conditional Ordinary Share Options (Long Term Incentive Plan)

Date Granted     Number of Shares Under Options       Price at Time of Grant

13 June 1997                  4718                             719p
12 June 1998                 10762                             663p
2 July 1999                  26374                             455p
5 June 2000                  33420                             364p

The Long Term Incentive Plan permits the British Airways Board Remuneration
Committee to make awards of options over shares to the most senior group of
executives conditional upon the Company's performance relative to other
companies in the FTSE-100 Index. The Company performance conditions which must
be met before the awards become unconditional are contained in the published
British Airways 2000/2001 Annual Report & Accounts which may be found on the
British Airways web site at www.bashares.com