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Welcome to the new BA fleet: confirmed news and information on aircraft deliveries, refurbishment, and retirements thread. The purpose of this thread is to allow us to track developments concerning the British Airways aircraft fleet based at London Heathrow and London Gatwick as well as the BA CityFlyer fleet based at London City and Edinburgh airports, and is a continuation of the popular BA Fleet : New aircraft arrivals and retirements master tracker thread.

We'd like to reserve this thread for known, confirmed updates but as many of you enjoy discussing this topic in speculative terms, we've set up a sister thread to cater for this need which you can follow here

Please follow the wiki post attached to this thread to track the latest developments and status of the fleet. For illustrative purposes, a brief summary of the fleet is provided below, listed from the dinky and beautifully proportioned A318 to the gargantuan A380.




Airbus A319

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Airbus A320 family

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Airbus A321 family

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Boeing 787-8

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Boeing 787-9

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Boeing 787-10

Image credit: Boeing

Boeing 777-200ER

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Boeing 777-300ER

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Airbus A350-1000

Image credit: Stuart Bailey/British Airways

Airbus A380-800

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BA CityFlyer fleet
Embraer E190

Image credit: Nick Morrish/British Airways



Casualties of COVID-19 - fleet retirements of 2020/21

British Airways fleet
Airbus A318 [withdrawn from service]

Image credit: Nick Morrish/British Airways

Boeing 747-400 [withdrawn from service. Aircraft retirements commencing 18 August 2020]

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BA CityFlyer fleet
Embraer E170

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G-YMMK confirmed as having had the majority of its seats removed to enable cargo to be carried in the cabin

https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...ger-cargo-use/

 

What news of TTNM originally due at the end of this month?

By the same token what news of NEOY which was due several months ago?

 

Also YMMG. They both have just the F cabin fitted, J, W, Y all removed to make space for freight.

 

I�d be interested to know this too. I haven�t seen any indication that G-TTNM is our even built.

 

It�s interesting that they�ve left the First cabin intact given these aircraft are to be converted to a 3-class configuration. You�d have thought that all cabins would�ve been removed to make the 3-class fit-out quicker when the time comes.

 

It was mentioned on another thread that the F cabins are being used as an expanded crew rest facility as the crew operating the return flight travel on the outbound.

 

As mentioned the F cabin is required for crew rest to operate under extended FTLs. The normal crew rest facility is inoperable under freighter config and so keeping F was the easiest way around it I guess

 

ZBLA delivery postponed again.

 

This is getting silly!

 

Why? BA will be delaying it as long as they can so they don't have to pay. Boeing will be trying to get them to take it ASAP so they get paid for it. They will go back and forth for ages.

 

But it�s being put back every single week. They�re taking delivery of the A350s on time. This frame was supposed to be ready back in January!

 

I would imagine part of it is not wanting to take on a new type/config at this time.

rb211.

 

G-CIVP which has been stored at BOH since 28th March returned to LHR today

2 x 777 G-VIIC & G-VIIG were both flown to LGW today. Possibly for storage

 

Quality issues, methinks.