About The Company
The largest airline of the United Kingdom is British Airways and they are the third largest airline in all of Europe behind both KLM Airlines and Lufthansa. British Airways offers more flights across the Atlantic ocean than any other commercial airline operator. The company has two main bases of operations at London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports.

British Airways Operations: -
British Airways is the predominant and main airline company that flies out of Heathrow airport in London. About thirty-six percent of the slots for takeoff and landing at Heathrow airport are used for British Airways flights, many of which are for the transatlantic market flights the company offers. Recently British Airways has started to purchase takeoff and landing slots from other airlines that use the airport such as United Airlines, SN Brussels and Swiss International Air Lines. As a result British Airways now owns about forty percent of the takeoff and landing slots at Heathrow airport.

Considered the National Carrier of the United Kingdom by most, British Airways has also been greatly criticized for not having a greater presence in Northern Ireland. Currently British Airways offers only two flights in and out of Northern Ireland. These are a flight from the Belfast Airport to Manchester and a flight from Derry to Dublin and Glasgow. As a result Northern Ireland has no direct airline flights to London or Wales. Although British Airways operates a large base in Cardiff for the purpose of engineering and making large scale modifications to their fleet of commercial aircraft.

Cargo Service: -
British Airways also owns a subsidiary company known as British Airways World Cargo which is the twelfth largest cargo service airline in the world when it comes to amount of cargo flown. Through the network of flights offered by their World Cargo service they have global reach. The airline services airports at London, Glasgow, Frankfurt, Vitoria and Seoul with cargo flights.

In 1999 British Airways started a World Cargo center at Heathrow airport. Today these center is one of the largest and most advanced automated freight handling services in the entire world. In addition, the center features a special center for the purpose of handling premium, unusual and perishable cargo. The cargo center handles about eighty thousand tons of cargo per year.