The carrier, which grounded a lot of its armada due to the coronavirus emergency, has been haggling with the Unite Association for over seven days.
The different sides have arrived at a wide arrangement yet will be yet to sign on certain subtleties.
The understanding implies that up to 80% of the BA lodge team, ground staff, engineers and those working at head office will have their employments suspended yet no staff is relied upon to be made repetitive.
The choice will influence all staff at Gatwick and London City Airport after the carrier suspended its activities at the two areas until the emergency is finished.
Those influenced are relied upon to get a portion of their wages through the administration's coronavirus work maintenance plot, which covers 80% of somebody's pay topped at a limit of £2,500 every month.
John Strickland, an autonomous flying expert, said "intense dealings" among BA and the Unite association implied it had required a significant period to agree.
"The pilots' arrangement for half compensation was closed rather before, I surmise there was an acknowledgment as to exactly how genuine that issue seemed to be," he said.
It is imagined that the Unite association has been pushing for staff to be paid more than that. BA has just arrived at a different arrangement with its pilots who will accept a half decrease in salary for more than two months.
BA's parent organization, International Airlines Group (IAG), is in a superior budgetary situation than a portion of its rivals. The gathering has made solid benefits lately.
Be that as it may, the aircraft's relied upon the choice to suspend such an enormous number of laborers gives a feeling of how hard UK flying has been hit by movement limitations, intended to stem the spread of the pandemic.
With future appointments dropped for a long time to come, aircraft have been discharging money.
Throughout the following three months, the International Air Transport Association anticipates that aircraft should pile on misfortunes of nearly $40bn (£32.3bn). It said transporters were consuming their money holds quick, essentially on account of the multi-billion-pound cost of discounting tickets for dropped flights.
Many staff at Virgin Atlantic have had their employments suspended for two months and groups at Easyjet are out of labor for a quarter of a year.
This week, British Airways has run government repatriation flights to get several British nationals home from Peru, after the nation went into lockdown.
It is one of a few UK-based carriers that has consented to run further repatriation flights in the coming a long time as a huge number of individuals are as yet stuck in different pieces of the world.