aid: british-airways
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/british-airways/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: British Airways
kind: company
description: >-
  British Airways Plc is the United Kingdom's flag carrier, headquartered at Waterside near
  London Heathrow and owned since 2011 by International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG),
  which also owns Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and LEVEL. In the distribution chain BA is a
  supplier of its own seat inventory, reached either through the three legacy GDSs, through
  IATA NDC connections it operates itself, or direct on ba.com. BA was one of the earliest
  and most aggressive NDC adopters: from 1 November 2017 IAG applied a per-fare-component
  Distribution Technology Charge to BA and Iberia marketed fares that are not booked through
  an NDC based connection or a low-cost channel such as ba.com, explicitly pricing GDS
  intermediation out of the stack. Its API posture is honest to state plainly - the NDC
  distribution API is real and is built on the IATA EDIST message set, but there is no public
  specification, no published base URL, no self-serve signup and no exit path. Access requires
  registration, a B1 or B2 certification form, acceptance of the British Airways API and
  Services Trial Use Agreement plus the Travel Agency Addendum for IATA accredited agents, and
  signed live API contracts. The older public consumer REST APIs (Flight Information, Flight
  Offers, Lowest Prices, In-Flight Entertainment, Hotel/Car/Flight packages) on the IAG
  Developer Programs portal are gone: as of 2026-07-28 developer.iairgroup.com returns HTTP 404
  and api.ba.com returns HTTP 596 ERR_596_SERVICE_NOT_FOUND for every documented resource.
image: https://images.ctfassets.net/nwnmkeyu03hy/1qDtSOnE37fsTzD4GPdfFN/347c175022b9aec007a10630028a4439/British-Airways-logo.png
tags:
- Travel
- United Kingdom
- Aviation
- Airline
- Distribution
- NDC
- Booking
- Corporate Travel
- Airports
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: british-airways:british-airways-ndc-api
  name: British Airways NDC API
  description: >-
    British Airways' IATA New Distribution Capability API - a direct link into BA's host
    reservation system for flight shopping, ordering, ticketing and post-booking servicing,
    operated jointly across IAG for BA and Iberia. It implements the IATA EDIST message set
    (the ndc.ba.com application carries the XML namespace
    http://www.iata.org/IATA/EDIST/2017.2), with a 21.3 pilot programme running alongside the
    17.2 production version. The IAG developer portal described the 17.2 plan as AirShopping,
    OfferPrice, SeatAvailability, OrderCreate, OrderRetrieve, AirDocIssue, OrderChange,
    OrderReShop and OrderChangeNotif. No OpenAPI or WSDL is published, no production base URL
    is published, and there is no self-serve access - see review.yml for the full certification
    and contracting path.
  humanURL: https://ndc.ba.com/developer/api-documentation
  tags:
  - NDC
  - Distribution
  - Flights
  - Booking
  - Ticketing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/developer/api-documentation
  - type: Portal
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/start/build-and-test-the-api
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/start/ndc-registrations
  - type: Support
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/faq/technical
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/
  - type: Roadmap
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/developer/ndc-product-api-roadmap
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/british-airways-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/british-airways-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/british-airways-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/british-airways-ndc-notifications.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/british-airways-sandbox.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/capability/ndc-offer-management
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ndc.ba.com/capability/ndc-order-management
  - type: LegacyPortal
    url: https://developer.iairgroup.com/british_airways
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/british-airways-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/british-airways-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://hackerone.com/british_airways_vdp
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/british-airways-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/british-airways-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/british-airways-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/british-airways-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/british-airways-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/british-airways-conventions.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/british-airways-ndc-notifications.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/british-airways-sandbox.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/british-airways-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/british-airways-llms.txt
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://ndc.ba.com/developer/ndc-product-api-roadmap
- type: Website
  url: https://www.britishairways.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://ndc.ba.com/
- type: PartnerPortal
  url: https://www.britishairways.com/travel-partner-connect/en/kr/policies/booking-and-ticketing/distribution-technology-charge-guide
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.britishairways.com/assets/pdfs/updates/distribution-technology-charge.pdf
- type: LegacyPortal
  url: https://developer.iairgroup.com/british_airways
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/
- type: Investors
  url: https://www.iairgroup.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/british-airways
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com