British Airways is to ground 16 aircraft for the upcoming winter season, to rein in capacity following the sharp decline in passenger demand.

It will ground eight Boeing 747-400s and eight 757-200s in order to cut capacity by 4% for winter 2009-10.

BA has already laid plans to sell the 757 fleet to another operator for cargo conversion.

The airline has already increased its capacity reduction for the summer season to 2.5% from the 2% it disclosed in March.

Over winter 2008-09 the airline cut capacity by 3.1%.

BA says it has the flexibility to withdraw more of its long-haul aircraft, notably as the number of jets in its fleet older than 20 years - some of its Boeing 747-400s and <A href=”http://www.flightglobal.com/lan

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