British Airways

British Airways plc

About this app

The British Airways app makes booking, boarding and accessing everything about your flights easier than ever before. Personalised to you, the app gives you instant access to the information you need, when you need it.

Features:

- Timeline
Including live travel and flight information, and convenient tools and tips for your journey – all shown in a simple card format. See a countdown to your flight, find out which terminal and gate you need to go to and keep up to date when things change.

- Boarding passes for more than one passenger
Now up to eight individual mobile boarding passes can fit on just one phone, provided everyone travelling together is on the same booking reference number.

Multiple boarding passes are available from the following departure airports: Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Basel, Belfast, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, Jersey, Leeds, London City, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Manchester, Vienna, Zurich.

Bookings which contain an infant passenger cannot currently use multiple boarding passes.

- Personalised home screen
Your home screen is your personal gateway into the BA app. Themed around your next destination, it will give you easy access to important information surrounding your flight, including your mobile boarding pass.

- Widget
You can add the British Airways widget to your phone's home screen and get the latest information on your next flight, as well as quick access to boarding passes.

- Book flights
Booking a flight with British Airways has never been easier. Browse our cheapest fares to over 400 destinations or quickly access your recent flight searches made from any device, and book a flight from over 130 countries.

- Manage your flights
Access and purchase upgrade offers from your phone, book seats in advance, add flights to your calendar or send them via email and get up-to-date arrival and departure times for all of your flights. Additionally, lounge users can access the British Airways Lounge Wi-Fi password.

- Flight status and schedules
Search and track all British Airways flights for the latest arrival and departure times.

- Exclusive features for Executive Club Members
Executive Club members can use our app to check their Avios, Tier Points and full transaction history. Get flight updates sent straight to your device. Those using TAG, our digital bag tag, can also update it within the app after checking in.

Not an Executive Club member yet? Join for free on ba.com.

- Permissions
We need access to your calendar and email to let you add and share bookings. We also need access to your camera and Location and Bluetooth Services to link with TAG, our digital bag tag.

Finally, we need permission to send you notifications.

Please refer to the 'Application Licence Agreement', linked on this page, to view the terms of use of this application and use of mobile boarding passes. By downloading the BA application, you agree to the terms of the Application Licence Agreement.
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/offers/terms-and-conditions/british-airways-license-agreement

Ratings and reviews

The app loses data once you switch to other app, refreshes and starts over, e.g. paying for seats selection. In case you wonder why no one is selecting paid seats. Upgrading flights - I select first one to upgrade to world traveler plus, select the connecting flight do not wish to change, but it gets upgraded to Club Europe which really boosts the price. This doesn't happen with the return flight. Reading reviews below, I am still lucky it mostly works otherwise.

It doesn't work. That simple. Forget that I had to sign up for a rewards program just to get a login, once logged in it won't let me see my boarding pass, won't update flight status, won't do anything. No links or buttons work. It's a mess. Maybe the iOS version works better but I have an Android (clearly) so I wouldn't know.

Very difficult to use compared to Other airlines. I've completed check in but I only get boarding passes for some of the travelers. I go back to the app the next day get a message that boarding passes not able because check in status is unknown. Then takes me to the boarding passes. Then when I click on the seats it tells me I'm not checked in.

What's new

We’re always working behind the scenes to improve the British Airways app by making it faster and easier to navigate.