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British Airways has redesigned its travel agent website to provide more information about the airline.

More content, fact sheets and up-to-date information has been uploaded to batraveltrade.com, which now has a similar style to the carrier’s consumer website.

Agents can also subscribe to marketing and disruption emails so they can keep up to date on any schedule changes.

The new site is the first major revamp of the portal in more than five years and forms part of the carrier’s overall GBP5 billion investment plans.

“We understand the need for agents to have up-to-date knowledge about our products and services. We want them to feel comfortable to come onto our site, be able to answer queries quickly, and also help them to learn more about what we can offer our customers,” said Roopal Vyas, BA’s online lead trade editor.

“We hope they like the new design. We’re encouraging travel agents to give us feedback on the new site so we can continue to make improvements so that our content is always current and relevant,” he added.

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AGENTS can discuss trade issues with British Airways thanks to a new section that has been added to its industry website, www.batraveltrade.com .

The new section, known as Talking Point, will allow the airline to respond to trade issues raised by agents. Each week a topic will be selected and head of UK sales and marketing Tiffany Hall or one of her team will respond. Agents can email their views to [email protected] .

Another new addition, Cleared for Take Off, is a news service that will be continuously updated with the latest press releases and sales information. There will also be a photo library with downloadable shots of the airline’s products and services.

BA general manager leisure sales Andrew Swaffield said: “These two new sections will improve communication with our travel agency partners. Our trade extranet is now an indispensable tool for agents to provide information for their customers.”

The move follows the launch of Trade Fare Explorer last month, which enables agents to book via the website. The system, aimed at agents that do not have access to a global distribution system, is based on the new selling engine that features on the airlines other website, www.ba.com .

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British Airways has officially opened ‘CallBA’, its new call centre located in Gurugram, near Delhi, offering an enhanced customer experience to travellers across the globe.

The airline’s Chairman and CEO, Sean Doyle, unveiled the new office space, where 1,400 highly trained colleagues offer round-the-clock support to thousands of customers from the US and Europe, through to Asia Pacific.

CallBA has doubled in size since 2019, and the new facility comfortably accommodates the full team, with colleagues now using a cloud-based telephone system with call-flow management and access to insightful data to further personalise the customer experience. Sean Doyle, British Airways’ Chairman and CEO, said, “British Airways has been flying to India since 1924, making it one of our longest-served and most valued destinations. This investment in our Customer Care team at CallBA is part of our vision to continually enhance and upgrade our customer service. As we continue to invest in our people and grow our customer service teams in the region, we remain committed to the country and its people as we build a better BA.”

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  • It boasts of an energy-efficient double-glazed facade and beautiful green and open spaces throughout the building with ample natural light. There are over 10,000 plants all around the building, including in the car parks and offering staff green and natural surroundings and beautiful collaborative spaces.

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HUNDREDS of customers are experiencing problems with the British Airways website.

Customers facing issues with the British Airways website rushed to Downdetector on January 21, 2024 to report the outage .

Is the British Airways website down?

On January 21, 2024, over 600 customers took to Downdetector, an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services, to report issues they were experiencing when trying to access the British Airways website.

The majority of passengers have cited issues with the website, with reports logged by customers from across the UK.

An outage map provided by the site Downdetector shows that issues are being reported in several areas across the UK.

Taking to social media , one user wrote: ‘’Your site is down. I’m trying to book a flight to Sydney .’’

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A second customer said: ‘’@British_Airways what is wrong with your app and website?’’

Meanwhile, a third complaint read: ‘’Your website is not working again,’’ and a fourth said: ‘’Hard to making a booking when your website won’t load!!’’

Responding to customer complaints on X, formerly known as Twitter , British Airways wrote: ‘’We are aware of some intermittent issues with the website and the app at the moment and our IT teams are currently investigating this for us.

‘’Please try again later today and hopefully, the issues have been resolved.’’

A second response to passengers read: ” We are aware of the issue and we’re working to get it resolved as soon as possible.”

How can I check if the British Airways website is down?

To check if the website is down, you can try the website Downdetector, which reports complaints inputted by users.

Currently, there are hundreds of reports on the British Airways website.

Alternatively, you can check social media channels for updates.

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If you can’t access the website for your flights or boarding pass , you should contact customer service via their social media channels.

Or you can call the customer service number on 0344 493 0787.

If you need to visit the airport in the upcoming hours, then passengers should go to the BA help desk on arrival.

One customer experiencing problems took to social media and asked: ”Can’t seem to check in either on the app or on the web. Are your systems down again?”

Responding to the query, British Airways wrote: ”We’re aware of the issue and we’re working to get it resolved. Please try again later but if you need to, you can check in at the airport. Apologies for the inconvenience.”

The British Airways website went down back October 2023, and then again in August, following the NATS Air Traffic Control issue.

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  • Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
  • Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
  • Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
  • Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

Browser and assistive technology compatibility

We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).

Notes, comments, and feedback

Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to

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