Is British Airways down?
Check if britishairways.com is down for everyone or just you
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Webhook receives a JSON payload on every status transition. Fire-and-forget — no auth from us; the URL is its own secret.
Methodology
- Probe
- We send a GET request to the target URL from each region and time the full response.
- Counts as DOWN
- Every region fails the request (connect refused, DNS error, timeout, or HTTP 5xx).
- Counts as DEGRADED
- At least one region succeeds but at least one fails — the outage is partial or regional.
- Detail
- Per-region results include HTTP status code, response time, and best-effort DNS / connect / TLS / first-byte phase timings when the Node HTTP client exposes them.
- Cadence
- Every 5 minutes, in parallel across 4 monitoring regions (US East Virginia, US West Oregon, Europe London, Asia Singapore).
- Rate-limited targets
- If a host returns 429 or consistently drops connections from our IPs, we cap retries at 3 and report the last observed status — we do not flood the target to confirm the outage.
- Data source
- Direct probes from our monitoring infrastructure. We do not aggregate crowd reports, Twitter mentions, or DownDetector signals — every result on this page is a live network request.
Common questions
Why is British Airways down right now?
British Airways outages are usually caused by server overloads, failed deployments, CDN or DNS problems, DDoS attacks, or regional internet routing issues. isitdown.io checks British Airways from 4 regions (US East, US West, Europe, Asia) simultaneously. If all 4 fail, British Airways is down for everyone. If only some fail, the outage may be regional. If all pass but you still can't connect, the issue is on your local network, VPN, or DNS.
How can I check if British Airways is down for everyone or just me?
Click "Check British Airways now" above. isitdown.io pings britishairways.com from four global regions in parallel and reports which ones succeeded. If all four pass, the issue is local — try flushing your DNS cache, switching networks, disabling your VPN, or using a different browser. If two or more regions fail, the outage is on British Airways's side.
Is British Airways having issues today?
The live response-time graph above shows the last 24 hours of real checks against britishairways.com. Each data point is an actual HTTP request from our monitoring system — not a third-party feed. Green means up, red means down. Spikes indicate slow responses. Bookmark this page to check back during future outages.