Online check-in demo

Online check-in is a simple process, available from 24 hours before your flight departs.

You can:

• Check in up to nine people in your booking, including infants and children
• Confirm your seats
• Print your boarding pass

It’s quick and easy to use allowing you to arrive at the airport relaxed and ready to go.

To get started, select ‘Check in online’ then enter your British Airways booking reference and your last name into the ‘My Booking’ section on the ba.com home page.

Then select ‘Go’.

Now you'll see all your flights, departing within the next 24 hours, for all of the passengers on the booking.

You can check in online up to nine people on the same booking. For parties of ten or more you’ll need to use a Check-in Kiosk at the airport.

You will need to submit Advance Passenger Information, which is required by most countries, before you can continue to check-in online.

Select the box next to ‘Check in now’ and then select ‘Continue’.

Choose the number of bags you intend to check in.

Tick the box to state you have read and understood the unattended baggage and banned and restricted items message, and then select ‘Continue’.

Here you'll see the seats given to you and any travellers in your booking.

You can either select ‘Confirm seats and check-in now’ or you can ‘View or change’ your seat.

To change your seat, either:

• Click on the passenger icon that shows your name and seat number, or,
• Click on the passenger icon in the seat plan, then select an available seat.

The blue seats are free for you to select from and you can use the scroll bar, next to the aircraft, to display more seats.

If you have already paid for and pre-assigned your seats, you will not be entitled to a refund if you change your seats.

Select ‘Continue’.

If you have no further changes, ‘Confirm seats and check in now’.

You are now checked in.

To save time at the airport, you can print your boarding pass for most of our routes. If you don't have a printer, you can do any of the following:

• Fax, save, email your boarding pass and print it at least an hour before your flight departure time
• Collect your boarding pass at an airport kiosk or desk
• Download your boarding pass onto your mobile

Choose an option and select ‘Go’.

After you've printed your boarding pass, you can select ‘View check-in summary’ to see your flight details and review the check-in status of the passengers in your booking.

Take your printed boarding pass with you to the airport. If you have baggage to check in, take it to the Bag Drop desk.

If you don't have any bags to check in, your printed boarding pass will tell you how to proceed through security into Departures.

If you have not printed a boarding pass; you can use a Check-in Kiosk at the airport to print it.