What should I do if British Airways is down for me?

Check your booking through the confirmation email rather than the app. A reservation already made lives in the airline or host system and survives an outage of the site you booked it on. Try the airline directly if a booking site is failing, and the reverse. They are separate companies running separate systems. Avoid rebooking during an incident. A booking that appears to have failed has often gone through, and duplicates are expensive to unwind. Use the mobile boarding pass you already downloaded. It does not need the app to be online to scan.

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Is British Airways down right now?

No, it’s up.

British Airways appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-09 18:47 UTC

responded in 164ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, British Airways has answered our automated checks with 59.9% availability and a typical response time of ~285 ms. The most recent outage began 2026-09-09 11:21 UTC and lasted 15m (severity: down).

British Airways handles booking, check-in and boarding passes through systems that fail independently of each other. A check-in outage at peak hours is the one passengers feel immediately, at the airport.

Is British Airways down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching British Airways normally right now, and it answered our last one in 164ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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British Airways response time (last 24h)

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British Airways incident history (last 90 days)

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Date	What happened	Duration	Severity
2026-09-09 11:21 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-09-09 05:50 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-09-09 01:11 UTC	Measured by our checks	45m	Down
2026-09-08 21:22 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-09-08 14:51 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-09-08 09:51 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 46m	Down
2026-09-08 06:17 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 41m	Down
2026-09-08 04:21 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 11m	Down
2026-09-08 02:59 UTC	Measured by our checks	40m	Down
2026-09-07 13:31 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 21m	Down
2026-09-07 10:49 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 21m	Down
2026-09-07 05:18 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 56m	Down
2026-09-07 03:01 UTC	Measured by our checks	40m	Down
2026-09-07 01:55 UTC	Measured by our checks	30m	Down
2026-09-07 00:18 UTC	Measured by our checks	20m	Down
2026-09-06 22:26 UTC	Measured by our checks	40m	Down
2026-09-06 17:06 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 51m	Down
2026-09-06 15:20 UTC	Measured by our checks	25m	Degraded
2026-09-06 14:49 UTC	Measured by our checks	20m	Down
2026-09-06 06:36 UTC	Measured by our checks	4h 29m	Down
2026-09-06 05:04 UTC	Measured by our checks	20m	Down
2026-09-06 03:02 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 41m	Down
2026-09-05 23:19 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 1m	Down
2026-09-05 18:45 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 22m	Down
2026-09-05 15:21 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 31m	Down
2026-09-05 14:40 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-09-05 04:05 UTC	Measured by our checks	9h 29m	Down
2026-09-04 22:40 UTC	Measured by our checks	4h 49m	Down
2026-09-04 16:49 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 47m	Down
2026-09-04 14:06 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 27m	Down
2026-09-04 04:57 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 51m	Down
2026-09-04 03:00 UTC	Measured by our checks	45m	Down
2026-09-03 23:37 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 41m	Down
2026-09-03 19:48 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 27m	Down
2026-09-03 18:02 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-09-03 16:56 UTC	Measured by our checks	20m	Down
2026-09-03 06:43 UTC	Measured by our checks	7h 39m	Down
2026-09-03 04:51 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 21m	Down
2026-09-03 01:38 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 1m	Down
2026-09-03 01:08 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Degraded
2026-09-02 21:45 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h	Down
2026-09-02 15:59 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 41m	Down
2026-09-02 10:39 UTC	Measured by our checks	3h 3m	Down
2026-09-02 09:03 UTC	Measured by our checks	25m	Degraded
2026-09-02 07:01 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 56m	Down
2026-09-01 17:28 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 2m	Down
2026-09-01 15:00 UTC	Measured by our checks	14m	Degraded
2026-09-01 14:14 UTC	Measured by our checks	30m	Degraded
2026-09-01 02:18 UTC	Measured by our checks	30m	Down
2026-08-31 22:34 UTC	Measured by our checks	3h 18m	Down
2026-08-31 21:38 UTC	Measured by our checks	25m	Down
2026-08-31 18:40 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h	Down
2026-08-31 16:13 UTC	Measured by our checks	25m	Degraded
2026-08-31 14:05 UTC	Measured by our checks	30m	Down
2026-08-31 13:24 UTC	Measured by our checks	21m	Down
2026-08-30 21:31 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 51m	Down
2026-08-30 16:12 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 15m	Down
2026-08-30 15:15 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Degraded
2026-08-30 00:11 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 46m	Down
2026-08-29 23:41 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down
2026-08-29 19:21 UTC	Measured by our checks	3h 38m	Down
2026-08-29 15:37 UTC	Measured by our checks	3h 13m	Down
2026-08-22 17:08 UTC	Measured by our checks	50m	Down
2026-08-22 16:02 UTC	Measured by our checks	45m	Down
2026-08-22 10:37 UTC	Measured by our checks	3h 28m	Down
2026-08-22 06:28 UTC	Measured by our checks	2h 27m	Down
2026-08-22 04:31 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 6m	Down
2026-08-22 02:03 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 16m	Down
2026-08-21 20:48 UTC	Measured by our checks	4h 50m	Down
2026-08-21 18:31 UTC	Measured by our checks	35m	Down
2026-08-21 16:59 UTC	Measured by our checks	50m	Down
2026-08-21 15:33 UTC	Measured by our checks	35m	Down
2026-08-21 14:37 UTC	Measured by our checks	35m	Down
2026-08-21 13:16 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h	Down
2026-08-21 11:14 UTC	Measured by our checks	30m	Down
2026-08-21 07:46 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Down

British Airways uptime

59.9%
7 days: 64.9%
30 days: 64.9%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-21. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 20 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days British Airways reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if British Airways is down for just you

Check your booking through the confirmation email rather than the app. A reservation already made lives in the airline or host system and survives an outage of the site you booked it on.
Try the airline directly if a booking site is failing, and the reverse. They are separate companies running separate systems.
Avoid rebooking during an incident. A booking that appears to have failed has often gone through, and duplicates are expensive to unwind.
Use the mobile boarding pass you already downloaded. It does not need the app to be online to scan.

Frequently asked questions

British Airways appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-09 18:47 UTC.

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