 British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group SA LSE:IAG said the airline could start paying a dividend in 2024 as it set out the pathway to restart shareholder distributions after signing a new agreement with the trustee of its pension scheme. While the funding position of BAs New Airways Pension Scheme NAPS, based on its valuation on 31 March 2021, shows a provisions deficit of 1.65bn, down from a deficit of 2.4bn three years earlier, the funding level has since considerably improved, the company said, and was in surplus as of 6 December 2022. 