The news comes just days before Crawley, along with former commercial director Martin George, former head of communications Iain Burns and former head of UK and Ireland sales Alan Burnett, are due to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of fixing fuel surcharge prices.
Alongside Crawley, who received share options in the company worth over £300,000, executives such as chief financial officer Keith Williams and director of strategy Robert Boyle received share options 24 hours before the start of the first three-day strike by cabin crew.
Other directors to receive share options are director of people Anthony McCarthy, director of investments and alliances Roger Maynard, director of engineering Garrett Copeland, and acting customer director Drusilla Maizey.
Len McCluskey, Unite assistant general secretary, said: "Cabin crew aren't luxuriating in share windfalls - they're too busy fighting to save their livelihoods and seem to be the ones truly concerned about BA's future."
However, a British Airways spokesman said the share option award was "is in line with most Ftse 100 companies" and dependent on whether "certain performance criteria targets are achieved".
Separately, the four executives, including Crawley and Martin George, now group marketing director at Bupa, will stand trial on Monday (12 April) accused of conspiring with counterparts at Virgin Atlantic to fix fuel surcharges on long-haul passenger flights.
The charges were brought by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) under Section 188 of the Enterprise Act. All four executives pleaded not guilty at a pre-trial hearing last year.
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