Holding in Company

British Airways PLC
12 July 2001


NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK 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 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 and Chairman 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 (1) (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 1


                      SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                     COMPANY     NAME

                       7,688,400    FMRCO        HSBC
                         651,400    FMRCO        Chase Nominees Limited
                          40,200    FMRCO        State Street Nominees Limited
                          81,200    FMTC         State Street Nominees Ltd.
                         655,800    FMTC         HSBC
                          79,700    FMTC         Bank of New York-Europe
                          67,500    FMTC         Nortrust Nominees
                         125,600    FMTC         National Cities
                       5,847,833    FISL         Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)  
                                                 Nominees Limited
                          90,300    FIL          Chase Nominees Ltd
                       1,095,870    FIL          Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                         421,990    FIL          Bankers Trust
                         357,381    FIL          Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)
                                                 Nominees Limited
                         479,240    FIL          State Street Nominees Ltd
                         498,880    FIL          RBS Trust Bank
                         136,180    FIL          Northern Trust
                      24,064,869    FIL          HBSC
                          43,600    FIL          Citibank
                         254,200    FIL          National Australia Bank
                         196,840    FIL          Mellon Bank
                          20,800    FIL          Credit Suisse
                          79,260    FIL          KAS Associatie
                          74,830    FIL          RBS-EDINBURG
                          10,600    FIL          Deutsche Bank AG, London
                         133,150    FIL          JP Morgan


TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES:43,195,623

The following shares are based on the assumed conversion of 8,100 ADRs (10
shares per ADR)

                          81,000    FMRCo        HBSC


TOTAL ORDINARY
SHARES AND ADRs       43,276,623

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  4.00%

SHARES IN ISSUE:   1,082,609,165

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:           +8,857,670 ORDINARY SHARES