Director/PDMR Shareholding

4 April 2011

Notification of Directors' Interests

Pursuant to the Company's obligations under paragraph 3.1.4R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, BBA Aviation plc hereby notifies the following dealings in BBA Aviation plc ordinary shares of 29 16/21 pence each in the capital of the Company:

1 Simon Pryce (CEO) and Mark Hoad (Group Finance Director) received an award of conditional shares on 7 March 2008 under the Company's 2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan. The performance conditions attaching to this conditional share award were recently tested and 50% of the award vested on 1 April 2011. The following conditional shares, being the number of shares net of applicable tax, are being released at nil cost in accordance with the Plan Rules:

Director Number of Shares

Simon Pryce 105,766

Mark Hoad 19,747

2 Simon Pryce received a matching award on 17 March 2008 under the Company's 2006 Deferred Bonus Plan. The performance condition attaching to this matching award was recently tested and 100% of the matching award vested on 1 April 2011. 33,560 shares, being the number of shares (net of applicable tax) subject to his matching award, are being released to him at nil cost in accordance with the Plan Rules and the related beneficial interests in 40,409 shares which he was allocated on 17 March 2008 are also being released to him by the trustees of the BBA Group Employee Share Trust.

As a result of the transactions set out above the total beneficial interests in ordinary shares of these individuals are:

Simon Pryce 887,800

Mark Hoad 79,052