Originally Posted by
Londoncity
... but at the expense of having a rather dense (epecially on the B777) eight across (2-4-2) layout in J class. BA is, to the best of my knowledge,the only carrier to fit so many seats across on long-haul J class.
Mere seat count does not high density make - you're failing to take into account the forward-backward pairing.
If the seats were 2-4-2 and all forward facing, that would be a different matter. But that's called WT+.