Holding in Company

British Airways PLC
18 September 2001

Amendment 4

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 - U.K. COMPANIES ACT

1.    Company in which shares are held:     British Airways

2.    Notifiable Interest:       Ordinary Shares


           (A)   FMR Corp.
                 82 Devonshire Street
                 Boston, MA 02109

                 Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research       
                 Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and   
                 Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered 
                 bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various  
                 pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of     
                 Registered Shareholders and their holdings.)

           (B)   Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
                 P.O. Box HM 670
                 Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

                 Parent holding company for various direct and indirect         
                 subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd.      
                 (FISL) and Fidelity Pension Management (FPM), investment       
                 managers for various non-US investment companies and           
                 institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of          
                 Registered Shareholders and their holdings.)

3.    The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

                 Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d
                 82 Devonshire Street
                 Boston, MA 02109

      A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.

4.    The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized    
      unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from        
      reporting pursuant to Section 209 (l)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.    These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate          
      notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the   
      purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR  
      Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International    
      Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr. Edward C. Johnson 
      3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interests, or 
      that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint basis.

6.    The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the Act,     
      namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to    
      exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the 
      exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.



SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: British Airways Plc                                  Amendment No 4


                      SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                     COMPANY     NAME

(Ordinary Shares)

                         12,526,400  FMRCO       HBSC
                            815,600  FMRCO       Chase Nominees Limited
                             40,200  FMRCO       State Street Nominees Limited
                             81,200  FMTC        State Street Nominees Ltd.
                            655,800  FMTC        HSBC
                             88,200  FMTC        Bank of New York-Europe
                             70,600  FMTC        Nortrust Nominees
                            136,300  FMTC        National Cities
                             13,500  FPM         Nordeau
                          5,533,209  FISL        Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)
                                                 Nominees Limited
                             90,300  FIL         Chase Nominees Ltd
                            948,400  FIL         Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                            398,812  FIL         Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)
                                                 Nominees Limited
                             49,201  FIL         State Street Nominees Ltd
                             57,100  FIL         Northern Trust
                         20,998,733  FIL         HBSC
                             43,600  FIL         Citibank
                            254,200  FIL         National Australia Bank
                             20,800  FIL         Credit Suisse
                             19,100  FIL         KAS Associatie
                             10,600  FIL         Deutsche Bank AG, London       
            

TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES:   42,851,855

The following shares are based on the assumed conversion of 8,000 ADRs (10 
shares per ADR)
                             80,000   FMRCo      HBSC

TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES
AND ADRs                 42,931,855

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  3.97%

SHARES IN ISSUE:      1,082,631,376

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:              (995,388) ordinary shares