About British Airways

oneworld® founder member British Airways launched the world's first daily scheduled international air service and remains the world's leading international airline. Throughout its history, it has been a pioneer - the first airline to offer jet passenger services, the first to operate weather-beating autolandings, the first to offer supersonic passenger services and the first in the modern era to offer fully-flat beds.

British Airways has announced the launch of a new airline OpenSkies which will start flying between the USA and points in continental Europe from 2008. OpenSkies will not be part of oneworld.

Network

Its main base is London Heathrow, the world's most popular international airport. It also has hubs at London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.

With its franchisees and affiliates, it serves some 175 destinations and almost 90 countries, in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and North and South America.

Travel Classes

On its most of its longhaul flights, British Airways offers four cabins:

• FIRST, complete with fully flat seats, each in its own cocoon-style area with a seat for a companion to join the passenger for meals or a chat
• Club World, with flat bed sleeper seats. An upgrade to this service is currently underway. For further details, see http://newclubworld.com/
• World Traveller Plus, a premium economy service, offering more room in-flight and dedicated check-in desks
• World Traveller, the airline's economy, or coach, class

On its European flights from London Heathrow, Gatwick and City, the airline offers:

• Club Europe business class
• Euro Traveller economy

Its UK domestic routes are all one-class, as are its services between the UK regions and continental Europe. Even passengers on the cheapest tickets are promised the full-service treatment, with free in-flight meals and drinks on all mainline flights. 

Codeshare Partners

Among its oneworld partners, British Airways owns 10 per cent of Iberia. It has wide-ranging commercial agreements with the Spanish airline, and with Qantas. It also code-shares with all other members of the alliance.

Beyond oneworld, it has commercial links with Alaska, Emirates, Jet Airways and SN Brussels.

oneworld Airline Affiliates

• BA Cityflyer: BA Cityflyer is a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways and operates all UK and European services to and from London City airport. 
• Comair: British Airways' Southern African franchisee, operating services with a BA flight prefix, with aircraft painted in BA colours and with crew wearing BA uniforms. It provides Club and Traveller (business and economy class) services to BA standards. British Airways itself owns an 18.3 per cent stake in Comair. It operates around 50 flights a day, using mainly Boeing 737s, serving Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth in South Africa and four points in neighbouring Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its own website is www.comair.co.za.
• Loganair: A privately-owned airline operating as a franchisee of British Airways within Scotland and to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It flies a fleet of mainly Saab 340's, turboprops, carrying almost half a million passengers last year. Its own website is www.loganair.co.uk. The Loganair franchise agreement ends 25 October 2008.
• Sun-Air of Scandanavia: A privately-owned Danish airline, which flies as a British Airways franchisee, with a BA flight prefix, aircraft painted in BA colours and crew wearing BA uniforms. It operates around 30 flights a day from Denmark (Billund, Aarhus and Aalborg) to other points in Scandinavia, Finland, Belguim, Germany and the UK, using a fleet of Dornier 328's and ATP's mainly. It boarded some 200,000 passengers last year. Its own website is http://www.sunair.dk/.

Frequent Flyer

Greater benefits with Executive Club

As an Executive Club member, you can collect Miles and Executive Club Points across the oneworld network. Gold and Silver members can enjoy extra benefits such as entry to over 500 lounges worldwide.

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