British Airways status
British Airways uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 98.3%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 98.23%
- Response time
- 45 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is British Airways down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached British Airways successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 991 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 881 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 459 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 539 ms |
Based on 204 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when British Airways misbehaves
British Airways is a travel service in our travel catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- SearchFares, routes and availability
- BookingCompleting a reservation
- PaymentsCheckout authorisation
- Check-inOnline check-in and boarding passes
- AccountLogin and loyalty programme
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of British Airways's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
British Airways appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About British Airways
British Airways operates a digital infrastructure for flight bookings, seat selection, and mobile boarding pass generation. Passengers use the Executive Club portal to manage loyalty points and check flight status updates in real time. Connectivity issues often surface as errors during the check-in process, inability to access the payment gateway, or failures within the mobile app's luggage tracking feature. This page on Rimetry serves as a diagnostic tool for travelers, offering current data on the airline's web performance and system availability gathered from a worldwide monitoring network.
British Airways (britishairways.com) is a travel service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now British Airways is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 45 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to britishairways.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like British Airways include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is British Airways?
UK flag carrier; bookings, check-in, and Executive Club.
British Airways is part of our Travel category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Search or availability errors
- · Booking fails at the payment step
- · Online check-in unavailable
- · Boarding passes not loading
Similar patterns often surface across other travel providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Check your booking confirmation email before repeating a payment
- · Try check-in in a browser if the app fails — boarding passes often work there
- · Search again with slightly different dates; some errors are inventory-specific
- · Keep screenshots of any confirmation you do receive
- · Contact the operator directly when travel is imminent
- · Check British Airways's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to travel.
FAQ
- Is British Airways down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past British Airways incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to travel.