Director/PDMR Shareholding

3 April 2012

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 (Group Chief Executive) and Mark Hoad (Group Finance Director) received an award of conditional shares on 6 March 2009 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 2 April 2012. The following conditional shares, being the number of shares net of applicable tax, were released at nil cost in accordance with the Plan Rules:

Director Number of Shares

Simon Pryce 259,320

Mark Hoad 50,352

2 Simon Pryce and Mark Hoad received a matching award on 17 March 2009 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 2 April 2012.

64,293 shares, being the number of shares (net of applicable tax) subject to the matching award, were released to Simon Pryce at nil cost in accordance with the Plan Rules and the related beneficial interests in 79,027 shares which he was allocated on 17 March 2009 were released to him by the trustees of the BBA Group Employee Share Trust.

5,706 shares, being the number of shares (net of applicable tax) subject to the matching award, were released to Mark Hoad at nil cost in accordance with the Plan Rules and the related beneficial interests in 7,014 shares which he was allocated on 17 March 2009 were released to him by the trustees of the BBA Group Employee Share Trust.

3 Subsequent to the release of the conditional shares and matching shares Simon Pryce sold 323,613 shares at a consideration of 215.55 pence per share on 2 April 2012. 

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

Simon Pryce 939,874

Mark Hoad 145,110