Traffic Statistics

British Airways PLC
5 December 2001

               TRAFFIC AND CAPACITY STATISTICS - NOVEMBER 2001


Summary of the headline figures

Capacity in November, measured in Available Seat Kilometres, was 14.6 per cent
below November 2000. Traffic, measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres, fell
17.8 per cent. The reduction in traffic comprised a 24.8 per cent decline in
premium traffic and a 16.3 per cent fall in non-premium traffic. Passenger
load factor of 63.9 per cent was down 2.4 points on November 2000. Cargo,
measured in Cargo Tonne Kilometres, fell by 18.8 per cent.


Market conditions

Trading remains challenging. Although the traffic performance versus last year
in November improved on October much of this was driven by successful
promotional activity. Non-premium traffic has been responsive to this type of
price stimulation. Premium traffic remains weak. The adverse mix and
promotional activities are impacting yields.


Strategic developments

British Airways launched a UK based promotion in conjunction with Associated
Newspapers offering tickets with savings of up to 60% against the lowest
published fare. More than 100,000 discounted tickets were offered for sale
during the promotion, for travel between 25 November 2001 and 21 March 2002.

British Airways' Concorde returned to commercial service between London
Heathrow and New York's JFK airport. In addition, Concorde services to
Barbados resumed on 1 December, with one service per week between Heathrow and
Bridgetown. This service will operate for the winter season, until 13 April
2002.

British Airways announced that it is expanding capacity to Tobago, Grenada,
Antigua and St Lucia for the winter to cope with the increased demand. The
airline will operate two additional Boeing 777s per week: one from Gatwick to
Tobago and Grenada from 3 February to 24 March 2002 (currently three services
per week) and one from Gatwick to Antigua and St Lucia from 4 February to 25
March 2002 (currently two services per week).

The CAA published its preliminary proposals for setting charges at Heathrow,
Gatwick and Stansted for the five years from April 2003 to March 2008.

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
announced that the Government has decided to approve the building of Terminal
5 at London's Heathrow airport.

British Airways announced the retirement of David Hyde, director of safety,
security and environment, after 34 years with the company. David will leave
the airline at the end of March 2002 and will be succeeded by Geoff Want,
general manager operations control. Geoff has held a number of senior
positions during his 25 years in the airline. David will continue to be
actively involved on behalf of British Airways in a number of key
non-executive roles.



December 5, 2001

BRITISH AIRWAYS MONTHLY TRAFFIC AND CAPACITY STATISTICS

                                                  Financial year to date
                          Month of November       April through November

BRITISH AIRWAYS                       Change                       Change
SCHEDULED SERVICES         2001  2000    (%)         2001    2000     (%)

Passengers carried (000)
UK/Europe                  2027  2178   -6.9        19628   19798    -0.9
Americas                    458   612  -25.1         4602    5854   -21.4
Asia Pacific                128   162  -21.1         1168    1482   -21.2
Africa and Middle East      198   225  -12.0         1871    1993    -6.1
Total                      2811  3177  -11.5        27268   29127    -6.4

Revenue passenger km (m)
UK/Europe                  1531  1705  -10.2        15881   16585    -4.2
Americas                   3138  4148  -24.3        31377   39971   -21.5
Asia Pacific               1324  1612  -17.9        11682   14600   -20.0
Africa and Middle East     1388  1513   -8.3        12610   13087    -3.6
Total                      7382  8978  -17.8        71550   84244   -15.1

Available seat km (m)
UK/Europe                  2692  3012  -10.7        24790   24698    +0.4
Americas                   4673  6002  -22.1        43445   51844   -16.2
Asia Pacific               2116  2208   -4.2        16176   18917   -14.5
Africa and Middle East     2077  2317  -10.3        18057   19556    -7.7
Total                     11558 13539  -14.6       102468  115016   -10.9

Passenger load factor (%)
UK/Europe                  56.9  56.6   +0.3 pts     64.1    67.2    -3.1 pts
Americas                   67.2  69.1   -1.9 pts     72.2    77.1    -4.9 pts
Asia Pacific               62.6  73.0  -10.4 pts     72.2    77.2    -5.0 pts
Africa and Middle East     66.8  65.3   +1.5 pts     69.8    66.9    +2.9 pts
Total                      63.9  66.3   -2.4 pts     69.8    73.2    -3.4 pts

Revenue tonne km (RTK) (m)
Cargo tonne km (CTK)        347   428  -18.8         2696    3287   -18.0
Total RTK                  1088  1323  -17.8         9832   11695   -15.9
Available tonne km (m)     1770  2017  -12.2        15555   16931    -8.1

Overall load factor (%)    61.5  65.6   -4.1 pts     63.2    69.1    -5.9 pts





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