# British Airways

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/british-airways/  
**Website:** https://www.britishairways.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 27.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 77.8 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **British Airways NDC API** — 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, oper...

## Security (3)

- **British Airways Authentication** — openIdConnect/apiKey · 2 schemes
- **British Airways Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **British Airways Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · contact published

## Tags

Travel, United Kingdom, Aviation, Airline, Distribution, NDC, Booking, Corporate Travel, Airports

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/british-airways/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.