Originally Posted by layz

I think they're trying to lower expectations.

There's some people annoyed they moved the inaugural flights (even though BA made no promises that these dates were set in stone). They probably don't want too many people booking on the test flights at the moment.

Once they're happy with the performance and they've ironed out any issues on the ground at LHR and the outstations it'll probably be easy to work out what the A380/787 flights are.

At least now, if people don't get a A380 on these routes they can't really say BA misled them.