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BA Fleet and Travel Class Guide
Taking advantage of a light boozy lunch today, the long overdue revamp of the BA Fleet Guide has been completed, in its draft form at least. So if you're as daft about aircraft as I clearly am, this thread's for you
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Travel Classes: Short Haul
EuroTraveller and UK Domestic
Club Europe
Convertible seating: How it works!
The vast majority of BA's short haul aircraft use converter seats. This allows BA to adjust the Club Europe cabin size to meet the demand of any specific flight.
For Club Europe, with the left hand (ABC) side of the aircraft, the B seat squishes, leaving wider A C seats (an extra two inches or so). On the right hand (DEF) side, they expand giving around an extra couple of inches per seat. Only the A, C, D, and F seats are sold. The curtain is moved forward or backwards accordingly.
As a consequence, the first left hand side seats behind the curtain (in the Euro Traveller cabin) are also squished to provide additional aisle clearance immediately behind the curtain.
Note, newer Airbus A320 aircraft are fitted entirely with spacesaver seats which do not adjust in width. The B and E seats do remain unsold however.
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Nice work
A small number of corrections:
The shorthaul 767s and some A320s have mainscreen IFE, and it should perhaps also be noted that the rest of the shorthaul fleet has mainscreen moving maps.
1 of the 772s (non-ER) has Thales AVOD. 9 of the 772ERs have Thales AVOD - there are only 6 772ERs and 2 772s (non-ER) that have the 12 channel GMIS system. The rest of the 772ERs have Upgrades TES. Could be worth differentiating these.
Should there be an A380 placeholder akin to the 787 one?