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British Airways

Airlines 75 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-07-04
BDS-1000 Score 110 /1000 E Tier E - Limited
Military ↗ 0.20 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 1.61 Political ↗ 0.54

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Key Findings

  • Economic: British Airways suspended its London Heathrow–Tel Aviv route after the 7 October 2023 attack, resumed it only as a downgraded single-aisle service in April 2025, re-suspended it after a Houthi missile struck Ben Gurion Airport on 4 May 2025, and has since extended cancellations into 2026 - a sustained contraction of, not an expansion into, the Israeli market.1234
  • Political: British Airways’ own Israel-based legal representative told a Knesset Economics Committee hearing that “there are certainly many political considerations” behind the airline’s repeated flight cancellations, even as BA’s public statements confined themselves to safety and customer-service language.5
  • Political/Governance: BA reversed an initial ruling and enforced its uniform “no political symbols” policy after a Gatwick Ground Services employee wore a Palestinian-flag fist badge, following a complaint from the advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel.67
  • Not found: No public evidence of British Airways holding defence contracts, carrying munitions, using Israeli-origin surveillance, biometric, cloud, or AI vendors, or of any BA corporate or executive statement taking a political position on the conflict.

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameBritish Airways plc
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom - BA plc is the UK flag carrier; its parent, International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (IAG), is a Spanish-registered holding company dual-listed in London and Madrid8
HeadquartersWaterside, Harmondsworth, United Kingdom9
SectorCommercial scheduled passenger and cargo airline (civil aviation)9
OwnershipWholly owned (100%) subsidiary of International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (IAG), formed January 2011 by the merger of British Airways and Iberia; Qatar Airways is IAG’s largest shareholder at ~25.1% (a parent-level, not BA-level, holding); BA was fully privatised on 11 February 1987810
Key Executives / GovernanceSean Doyle, Chairman and Chief Executive (CEO since October 2020, Chairman since April 2021); no public statement by Doyle or any BA director on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was identified1112
Israeli-Nexus SummaryA route-level commercial relationship (London Heathrow–Tel Aviv), repeatedly suspended and downgraded on stated security grounds since October 2023, with no identified military, digital, or settlement nexus

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

British Airways plc, the UK flag carrier and a wholly owned subsidiary of International Airlines Group (IAG), has one substantive and well-documented connection to Israel: scheduled commercial air service between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport, the airport-services procurement (ground handling, catering, fuel) required to operate that route, and consumer-facing marketing of Israel as a holiday destination. Across four independent domain audits - military, digital, economic, and political - the evidence record does not show BA functioning as a defence contractor, a surveillance-technology purchaser, a settlement-linked investor, or a politically outspoken corporate actor. What it shows instead is a civil aviation company whose Israel exposure is almost entirely route economics, mediated through a security-driven pattern of suspension, downgrade, and resumption since the war that began on 7 October 2023.

The strongest documented vector is economic. BA’s Heathrow–Tel Aviv service was, before October 2023, a meaningful part of its network (up to two daily wide-body rotations), but the carrier suspended it at the war’s outbreak, kept it dark through most of 2024, resumed it in April 2025 only as a downgraded single-aisle product stripped of its long-haul cabin, re-suspended it after a missile strike on Ben Gurion in May 2025, and has since postponed resumption into 2026.1234 BA’s own Israel-based legal representative told Israeli lawmakers that “political considerations” were among the factors behind the cancellations - a rare acknowledgment that the airline’s calculus was not purely a safety determination.5 BA also markets Jerusalem as “Israel’s capital” in its holiday products, a framing that departs from UK government non-recognition and from the international-law status of East Jerusalem as occupied territory, though no formal regulatory finding against this marketing copy was identified.16 The political domain’s most concrete event - BA’s reversal and enforcement of its uniform policy after a Gatwick employee wore a Palestinian-flag badge, prompted by a UKLFI complaint - is a governance and content-neutral policy matter rather than a corporate political alignment, and it is the only documented instance of BA leadership engaging, even indirectly, with conflict-linked symbolism.67

Substantial parts of the potential nexus are, by contrast, unsupported by the evidence gathered. No public evidence was identified of a UK Ministry of Defence contract, troop- or matériel-charter arrangement, or immigration-removal (deportation) charter role held by British Airways; those functions are documented as being served by specialist operators (AirTanker Services, Titan Airways, and others) and brokers, not BA.1718192021 No public evidence was identified of BA carrying munitions or dual-use military cargo to Israel, of BA holding UK export licences for arms or dual-use goods, or of any enforcement action against BA on those grounds.222324 On the digital side, BA’s enterprise technology stack - Amadeus, Salesforce, Sabio, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services, and Amazon Web Services - is entirely Western-domiciled, and its biometric boarding technology was supplied by Vision-Box, a Portugal-founded company later acquired by Amadeus; no Israeli-origin vendor, surveillance tool, or AI system was identified anywhere in BA’s own operations.252627282930 BA was also not among the UK corporates named in a 2017 UK-Israel Tech Hub initiative that connected other British firms to Israeli cyber vendors, indicating an available channel to Israeli technology that the documented record does not show BA using.31 No BA-El Al codeshare or commercial partnership was found, and no equity stake, joint venture, or settlement-linked sourcing relationship was identified.323334

Taken together, the evidence record supports a narrow, route-and-governance-level nexus concentrated in the economic and political domains, with the military and digital domains returning almost entirely negative findings. This is reflected in the BDS-1000 Score (V4): British Airways registers a Balanced Risk Score of 110, placing it in Tier E (Minimal). The score is driven by Economic (0.61 of a 1.61 domain score arising from route suspension/downgrade dynamics and contested Jerusalem marketing) as the maximum domain, with Political a distant second (0.54) and Military (0.20) and Digital (0.00) contributing negligibly - a profile consistent with a civil carrier whose Israel relationship is confined to commercial route management under wartime security conditions, not a systemic military, technological, or settlement-linked involvement.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
11 Feb 1987British Airways is fully privatised under the UK government.10
Jan 2011International Airlines Group (IAG) is formed by the merger of British Airways and Iberia; BA becomes a wholly owned IAG subsidiary.8
2014BA adopts Salesforce Sales Cloud as its core global B2B CRM platform.26
Oct 2015BA upgrades its London–Tel Aviv route to Boeing 787 Dreamliner service.35
2016IAG Cargo (BA and Iberia’s group-level cargo business) significantly expands Tel Aviv belly-hold capacity, targeting Israel’s pharmaceuticals export sector.3637
From 2017BA rolls out facial-recognition biometric boarding, first on US-bound routes with US Customs and Border Protection, then at Heathrow Terminal 5 for domestic UK departures.3839
June 2023BA staff payroll data is exposed via the MOVEit/Cl0p breach of third-party payroll provider Zellis, alongside the BBC and Boots.40
7 Oct 2023Hamas’s attack on Israel triggers the outbreak of war; BA suspends its Heathrow–Tel Aviv service.141
2024BA selects Amadeus as strategic technology partner, adopting the Amadeus Nevio Offer/Order portfolio.25
2024Amadeus acquires Vision-Box, the supplier of BA’s biometric boarding gates, for approximately €320 million.3042
Aug 2024A Gatwick Ground Services employee wears a Palestinian-flag fist badge; BA initially permits it, then reverses course, confirms it breaches uniform policy, and apologises following a UKLFI complaint.67
Aug 2024BA suspends flights amid Israel–Hezbollah clashes.43
Oct 2024BA extends the suspension, cancelling all Israel flights until March 2025.44
Jan 2025BA confirms it will return to the Israeli market.45
5 Apr 2025BA resumes Heathrow–Tel Aviv service, but only as a single daily downgraded Airbus A321neo rotation (a second daily flight added 20 April).246
4 May 2025A Houthi ballistic missile strikes the grounds of Ben Gurion Airport; BA again suspends the route.347
Jun–Jul 2025BA serially extends the suspension.48
Jun 2025BA runs a Microsoft Copilot AI trial across internal business use cases.29
2025–2026BA postpones resumption further, cancelling all Israel flights until at least 1 August 2026.4
Mar 2026BA’s own media centre confirms Tel Aviv remains among its cancelled Middle East destinations.49

Corporate Overview

British Airways plc is the United Kingdom’s flag carrier, headquartered at Waterside, Harmondsworth, and a wholly owned (100%) subsidiary of International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (IAG), formed in January 2011 through the merger of British Airways and Iberia.8 IAG is a Spanish-registered holding company dual-listed in London and Madrid; its largest shareholder is Qatar Airways at approximately 25.1%, a parent-level holding not attributable to BA itself.8 Within the group, British Airways retains its own air operator’s certificate, brand, labour agreements, and commercial strategy, meaning its Israel-facing route decisions are BA’s own corporate choices rather than IAG group directives.8 No public evidence was identified of any Israeli ownership stake, founding role, or strategic shareholding in British Airways plc.33

BA’s cargo capacity into Israel is sold and operated through IAG Cargo, the group-level freight business formed in 2011 from the merger of British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo; IAG Cargo expanded twin-daily wide-body belly-hold capacity to Tel Aviv from March 2016, targeting Israel’s pharmaceuticals export sector, but this is an IAG-level entity distinct from British Airways plc’s own ring-fenced operation and is contingent on BA’s underlying passenger frequency.3637 Ground handling, catering, and fuel services at Ben Gurion Airport are provided by three licensed operators - QAS (a Swissport/Knafaim Holdings venture), Laufer Aviation-GHI, and Aero - though no public evidence identifies which of these BA specifically contracts.5051 No public evidence was identified of BA holding a codeshare or commercial partnership with El Al.32 BA’s brand heritage as a former state-owned UK flag carrier (privatised in 1987) ties it to the UK government, not to Israel or any Israeli state institution.10

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

British Airways is a civil passenger and cargo airline with no identified defence-contracting, weapons-manufacturing, or military-sustainment line of business.52 Its only documented touchpoint with Israel is its scheduled Heathrow–Tel Aviv commercial passenger service, examined here as a commercial matter rather than military sustainment; no public evidence identified that this route carried military personnel, reservists, or sustainment freight on a contracted basis.53 BA operates a civil fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft with no weapons-platform line of business.53

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The UK Ministry of Defence’s standing charter requirements for troop and military-cargo transport are documented as served by specialist operators and brokers such as Air Charter Service, with the MoD’s South Atlantic military air bridge operated by AirTanker Services (and previously other specialist carriers) - British Airways is not named among these operators.171819 UK immigration-removal (deportation) charter flights are similarly documented as operated by Titan Airways, Privilege Style, TUI, Hi Fly, AirTanker, and Wamos Air, brokered via intermediaries such as Air Partner - again, not British Airways.2021 Reporting on a UK arms shipment to Israel intercepted in Belgium, and on UK-origin military components continuing to reach Israel via export-licence loopholes, implicates the freight-forwarding, customs, and arms-export chain but does not name British Airways as a carrier.22542324 A recurring point of possible confusion - the defence prime BAE Systems’ in-house corporate travel subsidiary, BAE Systems (Corporate Air Travel) Ltd - is a wholly separate company from British Airways and shares no operational identity with it.55

Named Entities and Evidence Map

AirTanker Services (MoD air bridge operator, not BA); Air Charter Service (MoD charter broker, not BA); BAE Systems (Corporate Air Travel) Ltd (separate entity from BA); Titan Airways, Air Partner and other named deportation-charter operators (not BA). Civil-society and BDS scrutiny on military-complicity grounds has targeted BAE Systems, not British Airways.5657

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

British Airways’ enterprise technology stack is composed entirely of Western vendors: Amadeus (Spain) for its Nevio Offer/Order and revenue-management platforms,25 Salesforce (US) as its core B2B CRM since 2014,26 Sabio Group (UK) for AI-driven customer-service transformation,58 Microsoft (US) for Teams-based support tooling and a 2025 Copilot trial,29 Tata Consultancy Services (India) as its multi-decade IT services partner,27 and Amazon Web Services (US), which hosts over 1,000 BA production accounts as part of a £7 billion, roughly £750 million-earmarked cloud migration.285960 BA’s biometric boarding-gate technology, deployed from 2017, was supplied by Vision-Box, founded in Oeiras, Portugal, and acquired by Amadeus in 2024 for approximately €320 million.3042

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence was identified of any Israeli-domiciled or Israeli-headquartered vendor, surveillance tool, biometric system, cloud provider, or AI platform anywhere in British Airways’ own technology stack. A 2017 UK-Israel Tech Hub initiative that connected Israeli cyber firms to UK corporates named Aviva, BT, Goldman Sachs, RBS, and Visa as participants - British Airways was not among them, indicating the absence of an Israeli-vendor relationship is not merely unexamined but stands against a documented channel other UK firms used.31 BA’s major 2018 and 2023 data-security incidents (the Magecart breach and the Zellis/MOVEit exposure) involved Western attackers, vendors, and regulators throughout, with no Israeli forensic, attribution, or remediation vendor identified in either case.1340

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Amadeus, Salesforce, Sabio Group, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services, Amazon Web Services, Vision-Box (biometric vendor, Portugal/Amadeus) - all non-Israeli. Zellis (UK payroll provider breached by the Cl0p ransomware group in 2023);40 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which fined BA £20 million in October 2020 over the 2018 Magecart breach after initially proposing £183.39 million.131415

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

BA’s principal economic activity touching Israel is its Heathrow–Tel Aviv scheduled service, which before October 2023 ran up to two daily wide-body rotations.35 The route was suspended at the war’s outbreak, resumed only as a downgraded single-aisle A321neo service in April 2025, re-suspended after the May 2025 missile strike on Ben Gurion, and remains cancelled into 2026 - a sustained pattern of contraction.1234 BA continues to market Tel Aviv and Israel holiday packages, describing Jerusalem as “Israel’s capital” and promoting sites including the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, even while the underlying route has been dark for extended periods.16 Operating the route requires airport-services procurement (ground handling, catering, fuel) at Ben Gurion, supplied by one of three licensed local operators, though BA’s specific supplier is not disclosed in public sources.5051 Cargo lift historically associated with the BA network into Israel is sold through the group-level entity IAG Cargo, which expanded Tel Aviv capacity in 2016 to serve Israel’s pharmaceutical export sector.3637

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence was identified of BA holding equity stakes, joint ventures, or direct fixed-asset investment in Israel beyond the operating footprint needed to serve the route, nor does BA appear on publicly reported divestment lists or in the UN database of business enterprises linked to Israeli settlements.3334 BA’s own commercial behaviour - repeated, extended suspensions - indicates the carrier judged the Israeli market’s commercial value insufficient to justify operational and security risk, the opposite of an expansionary posture.134 BA’s Israel-based representative sought route-support economic benefits comparable to those offered US carriers, which were not extended to BA - indicating BA was a recipient-seeker of, rather than a contributor to, Israeli aviation-support schemes.5 No public evidence quantifies BA’s tax payments, profits, or repatriated earnings specific to Israel; BA does not publish country-level financials for the market.33

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Ben Gurion Airport ground handlers QAS (Swissport/Knafaim Holdings), Laufer Aviation-GHI, and Aero;5051 IAG Cargo (group-level, out of BA’s direct scope);3637 Adv. Shirly Kazir of FBC law firm, BA’s Israel-based legal representative, who told the Knesset Economics Committee that “political considerations” featured in the cancellation decisions.5

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

British Airways issued no corporate statement taking a political position on the Gaza war or the broader conflict; its public communications on Tel Aviv service disruptions were confined to safety and customer-service language.6141 The most consequential documented political-governance event is the August 2024 Gatwick Ground Services incident, in which a staff member wore a Palestinian-flag fist badge; BA’s Executive Club team initially and erroneously told a complaining passenger the badge was permitted as a “symbol of religious faith,” then reversed that position, confirmed it breached the uniform’s no-political-symbols policy, apologised, and reminded Gatwick staff of the policy, following a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel.67 Separately, BA’s own Israel-based representative told the Knesset that “political considerations” were among the factors behind route cancellations - the clearest acknowledgment in the record that BA’s decisions were not framed purely as safety calls.5

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

BA’s operational framing of the Tel Aviv suspensions mirrors its handling of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, where it likewise issued no values-based condemnation and confined its public statement on the Moscow route’s cancellation to matters “beyond our control” - indicating a consistent policy of operational rather than political messaging across conflicts, not conduct singled out for Israel.62 The uniform policy enforced in the Gatwick incident is content-neutral and applies to political symbols generally, even though its practical effect in this instance removed a pro-Palestinian symbol; no comparable action removing a pro-Israeli symbol, and no equivalent incident in the other direction, was identified.67 No public evidence was identified of a British Airways–El Al codeshare or partnership, of any BA sponsorship or brand tie to Israeli state institutions, or of any public statement on the conflict by CEO and Chairman Sean Doyle.321112

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Sean Doyle, BA Chairman and CEO (no conflict-related statement identified);1112 UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), the advocacy group that raised the Gatwick badge complaint;7 Adv. Shirly Kazir/FBC law firm, BA’s Israel-based representative;5 the Gatwick Ground Services employee involved in the badge incident.6

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military2.502.002.000.20
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic5.003.504.501.61
Political3.502.503.000.54

Economic sets V_MAX at 1.61, driven by the documented Heathrow–Tel Aviv route history, its repeated wartime suspension/downgrade cycle, and BA’s continued marketing of Jerusalem as “Israel’s capital” - the highest-impact, most directly attributable vector in the record. Political contributes the largest secondary weight (0.54), anchored in the Gatwick uniform-policy incident and BA’s representative’s “political considerations” remark, while Military (0.20) and Digital (0.00) reflect the near-total absence of defence-contracting or Israeli-technology-vendor evidence. The method is scale-free (Impact × Magnitude/Proximity per domain, evidence-only, and human-vetted), yielding a composite score placing British Airways in Tier E (Minimal).

Methodology Note

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://airlineweekly.skift.com/2023/10/british-airways-latest-to-suspend-israel-flights-as-industry-braces-for-extended-conflict/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/british-airways-returns-to-tel-aviv-after-extended-hiatus ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/24/748529/UK-British-Airways-extends-flights-cancellation-Israel-Yemen-missile-attack-Ben-Gurion-airport- ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-british-airways-postpones-resumption-of-israel-flights-1001543444 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-british-airways-representative-israel-flights-cancelled-for-political-reasons-1001511622 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  6. https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/british-airways-apologises-after-staff-wore-palestine-badge-ipnkjwpb ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. https://www.uklfi.com/british-airways-staff-viewed-palestine-fist-badge-as-symbol-of-religious-faith ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  8. https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/british-airways-ownership-explained-how-the-united-kingdom-and-spain-shape-control-inside-iag/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  9. https://www.britannica.com/money/British-Airways-PLC ↩ ↩2

  10. https://londonairtravel.com/2019/08/01/british-airways-100-years-1987-privatisation/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Doyle_(businessman) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/factsheet/details/254 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_data_breach ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2019/ico-statement-intention-fine-british-airways-ps18339m-under-gdpr-data_cs ↩ ↩2

  15. https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/16/british_airways_ico_fine_20m/ ↩ ↩2

  16. https://www.britishairways.com/content/holidays/israel/tel-aviv ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/74c8caba-5525-4e75-b048-e34427a2c304 ↩ ↩2

  18. https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2bc85c30-0f1b-4119-8174-a96a6f5aa6b3 ↩ ↩2

  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTanker_Services ↩ ↩2

  20. https://corporatewatch.org/2024-uk-charter-deportations-a-balance-sheet/ ↩ ↩2

  21. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/01/10/air-partner-the-home-offices-little-known-deportation-fixer/ ↩ ↩2

  22. https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-exported-parts-for-israeli-air-force-after-suspending-arms-sales/ ↩ ↩2

  23. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/18/uk-arms-exports-find-loopholes-in-israeli-embargo/ ↩ ↩2

  24. https://aoav.org.uk/2025/britains-arms-exports-to-israel-parliamentary-debate-reveals-deep-concerns-and-conflicting-justifications/ ↩ ↩2

  25. https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/19562 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252441066/British-Airways-global-B2B-sales-gathered-under-Salesforce-cloud ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  27. https://www.tcs.com/what-we-do/industries/travel-and-logistics/case-study/tcs-british-airways-30-year-partnership ↩ ↩2

  28. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-insights/2025-aws-summit-london-top-5-recommended-sessions-for-business-leaders/ ↩ ↩2

  29. https://www.processexcellencenetwork.com/ai/news/british-airways-takes-flight-with-ai-driven-business-transformation ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  30. https://www.airport-technology.com/news/amadeus-to-buy-vision-box/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  31. https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Top+British+companies+seek+cyber+solutions+from+Israel+in+battle+against+hackers+07092017145107 ↩ ↩2

  32. https://www.elal.com/eng/frequentflyer/codeshare_points ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  33. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israelopt-investors-divest-from-companies-linked-to-occupation-genocide-in-palestine/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  34. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/2/13/un-lists-firms-linked-to-illegal-israeli-settlements-in-west-bank ↩ ↩2

  35. https://www.businesstraveller.com/news/2015/05/26/ba-to-serve-tel-aviv-with-b787/ ↩ ↩2

  36. https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/iag-cargo-significantly-boosts-tel-aviv-route-capacity ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAG_Cargo ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  38. https://www.futuretravelexperience.com/2019/05/british-airways-continues-roll-out-biometric-boarding/ ↩

  39. https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/11003 ↩

  40. https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/zellis-cyberattack-british-airways-boots-bbc ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  41. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/10/major-international-airlines-suspend-flights-to-israel-amid-war-on-gaza ↩ ↩2

  42. https://www.phocuswire.com/amadeus-acquires-vision-box-biometrics ↩ ↩2

  43. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/26/airlines-suspend-flights-over-clashes-between-israel-and-hezbollah ↩

  44. https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2024/10/22/british-airways-cancels-all-flights-to-israel-until-march-2025-over-security-uncertainty-in-the-region/ ↩

  45. https://skift.com/2025/01/21/british-airways-and-ita-confirm-return-to-israel/ ↩

  46. https://www.aol.com/british-airways-returns-tel-aviv-113502590.html ↩

  47. https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/t07ytr5iv ↩

  48. https://www.headforpoints.com/2025/06/21/british-airways-extends-tel-aviv-cancellations-3/ ↩

  49. https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/24879 ↩

  50. https://www.tlvflights.com/en/ground-handling/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  51. https://www.laufer.group/services/ground-handling/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  52. https://www.britishairways.com/content/flights/israel ↩

  53. https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-resumes-flights-tel-aviv-twice-daily-service-this-month/ ↩ ↩2

  54. https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-a-uk-arms-shipment-to-israel-was-seized-in-belgium/ ↩

  55. https://airhex.com/airlines/bae-systems-corporate-air-travel/ ↩

  56. https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-872974 ↩

  57. https://masjidalaqsa.com/boycott/bae-israel-bds ↩

  58. https://sabiogroup.com/customer-story/how-british-airways-customer-service-is-soaring-to-new-heights-through-data-driven-ai-innovation/ ↩

  59. https://www.itpro.com/business/digital-transformation/british-airways-eyes-cloud-overhaul-and-ai-deployment-in-pound7-billion-it-upgrade ↩

  60. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/british-airways-to-move-700-systems-to-the-cloud/ ↩

  61. https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/24855 ↩

  62. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/business/aeroflot-british-airways-russia ↩