Autonomous system
AS15914 British Airways
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
British Airways
enterprise business infrastructure
An airline holding a hundred and thirty-one thousand addresses, most of them registered to nobody at all.
What it's used for
- An airline's own network. Seventy-five IPv4 prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, no IPv6, one hundred and thirty-one thousand and seventy-two addresses, across three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The blocks split into two families. One carries a five-character netname and a registrant that is literally unknown; the other carries the same name with a digit two and is registered to a cable operator's address management team, with the airline second.
- Those five characters are the airline's initials plus a third letter, which is how it is identified in operational systems rather than in company records.
- The AS handle is the company name in plain words with no suffix, no country code and no letters for an autonomous system.
- Seventy-five separate announcements for what is a contiguous pair of ranges.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Registrant unknown on a routed block usually means the space predates the modern registry: it was assigned directly, before anyone was required to record who held it, and the record has never been rebuilt because nothing forces it.
- An airline needs an enterprise network at every airport it flies to, which is what a hundred and thirty-one thousand addresses and seventy-five routes look like from outside.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 67 prefixes · 131K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 67 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15914- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- BA-EBIZ
- Abuse contact
- ipam@virginmedia.co.uk
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 53 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS15914
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 53 of 53 announcements
- Route objects
- 91 naming AS15914
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere