British Airways Fleet

Current fleet
With the exception of the Boeing 707 and Boeing 747 from BOAC, the airline as formed in 1972-4 inherited a mainly UK-built fleet of aircraft. The airline introduced the Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 into the fleet in the 1980s followed by the Boeing 747-400, Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 in the nineties.[43][44] However, with the exception of 29 of its 777 fleet, it has equipped its aircraft with British-made Rolls-Royce engines examples including the Trent 800 on its Boeing 777s, the RB211-524 on its 747-400s and 767s, and RB211-535s on its 757-200s. Boeing-built aircraft for British Airways are allocated the customer code 36, which appears in their aircraft designation as a suffix, such as 737-436, 747-436, 777-236.

Although it had a large Boeing fleet it has always operated other aircraft.[ British built aircraft were transferred from BEA (e.g. Trident) and BOAC (e.g. VC10), and in the 1980s the airline bought the Lockheed L-1011. It has also acquired through the buyout of British Caledonian Airways in the 1980s the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Airbus A320. In the late 1990s British Airways placed its own first direct Airbus order, for over 100 A320/A319s to replace its own aging fleet of Boeing 737s.[49][50] In September 2007 BA placed its first order for long-haul Airbus jets, 12 Airbus A380s with 7 options.


British Airways Fleet Aircraft Total Orders Stored Passengers
(First/Club World/World
Traveller Plus/World Traveller) Base
Airbus A318-100 2 0 0 32(0/32/0/0) LCY
Airbus A319-100 33 0 0 132(0/0/0/132)
129(0/0/15/114) 7 LGW
26 LHR
Airbus A320-200 39 6 0 156(0/0/0/156)
152(0/0/15/137) LHR
Airbus A321-200 11 0 0 188(10/0/0/188)
184(0/0/15/169) LHR
Airbus A380-800 0 12 0 TBA LHR
Boeing 737-400 19 0 0 159(0/0/0/159)
145(0/0/13/132) LGW
Boeing 747-400 49 0 0 329(14/52/36/227)
291(14/70/30/177) LHR
Boeing 767-300ER 21 0 0 247(0//26/221)
192(0/24/24/144) LHR
Boeing 777-200 3 0 0 241(10/10/20/201) LHR
Boeing 777-200ER 43 0 0 229(14/48/40/127)
220(13/48/32/127)
272(0/36/24/212)
286(0/48/24/214) 11 LGW
32 LHR
Boeing 777-300ER 0 4 0 TBA TBA
Boeing 787-8 0 8 0 TBA TBA
Boeing 787-9 0 16 0 TBA TBA
Total 223 48 0