Here is a quick snap of my recent flight to Mainland China.

Around 80% of my longhaul flights have rather light loads. This time I was unlucky. Behind my row I saw an empty middle seat, however, my row was fully occupied.

The aircraft was serviced by a senior BA worldwide crew.

I believe it makes no difference how well or how bad the crew is treating the passengers - it will always be Y.
Because of the full flight I refrained from taking cabin pics.

Here are some flight stats:

Flight: British Airways Flight BA 169
Departure from: London Heathrow Airport, LHR, United Kingdom
Take Off from Runway 27L; length 3,660 m / 12,008 ft
Arrival To: Shanghai Pudong International Airport, PVG, China
Landing on: Runway 17R, length 3,400 m / 11,155 ft
Distance: 5,754 miles / 9,261 km
Duration: 10 hours and 28 minutes
Passenger load in Y: approx. 96%
Travel Class: World Traveller, Economy
Lounges visited at LHR:
British Airways Galleries Club Lounge North (crowded)
British Airways Galleries Club Lounge South (crowded)
British Airways Galleries Club Lounge Satellite T5B (calm)
Plane: Boeing 777-300ER
Registration: G-STBB
Delivered to BA: August 2010
Engines: 2 x General Electric GE90-115B
Take-Off Thrust: 115,500 lb each
Route: via Frederikshavn, Göteborg, Stockholm, Turku, Petrosawodsk, Surgut, Abakan, Tariat, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou, Hefei, Suzhou



Inside the crowded British Airways Galleries Club Lounge North:







Looking at the even more crowded Galleries Club Lounge South:





Galleries Club Lounge Satellite T5B is an oasis with only a few passengers:







View from the lounge:





Our Boarding Gate C56 in Terminal T5C:





Our Boeing 777-300ER, delivered to BA in 2010:





After pushback:







American Airlines Boeing 777-300ER at Terminal 3:





Star Alliance Terminal called The Queen's Terminal:





Cloudy Britain after a take off from Runway 27L:





180 degree turn after take off:





Complimentary hot dinner:





Around Frederikshavn, Denmark:





Just North of Göteborg, Sweden:





Sunset over Petrosawodsk, Karelia, Russia:





About to enter Chinese airspace:





Deploying Speedbrakes above Suzhou:







Soon we will receive a direct vector to Pudong Airport:





Above the Northern parts of Shanghai:





After landing on Runway 17R at Pudong:





Terminal 2 at Shanghai Pudong International Airport:





Approaching the gate at Terminal 2:





Unfortunately, I did not get a nice shot on the BA bird from the arrivals area:





Luckily I caught this bird on some other trips:





A calm Airport Metro train:





Shanghai Jing'an District; I always stay there:





View from the Swissotel (which I do not like too much):





Some dumb tourist shots:







Relaxing on top of the Apartment in the French Concession:





Here is the detailed video about this flight from London Heathrow to Shanghai Pudong:





All my trip reports on FT:

Airbus:

Iberia Airbus A340-600 London - Madrid in Y

Air Caraibes Airbus A350-900 Guadeloupe - Paris in Y

Empty Finnair Airbus A350-900 Helsinki - London Heathrow in Y+ and AY Lounge Sauna

Finnair Airbus A350-900 Helsinki - Shanghai in Y+

Finnair Airbus A350-900 Hong Kong - Helsinki in Y+

Singapore Airlines Airbus A380-800 Singapore - New Delhi in Upper Deck Y

British Airways Airbus A380-800 Singapore - London Heathrow in Y



Boeing:

Asiana Boeing 747-400 Combi Tokyo - Seoul in F

Air Canada Rouge Boeing 767-300ER Montreal - Cancun in Y+

Air Canada Rouge Boeing 767-300ER Cancun - Toronto in Y

United Boeing 777-200ER Houston - Newark - Amsterdam in C

United Boeing 777-200ER Amsterdam - Houston in Y+

United Boeing 777-200ER Singapore - Hongkong in C

British Airways Boeing 777-300ER London - Shanghai in Y

ANA Boeing 777-300ER Singapore - Tokyo in C

Swiss Boeing 777-300ER Zurich - Hong Kong in Y

Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER Hong Kong - Singapore in Y

TUI Airlines Nederland Boeing 787-8 Sint Maarten - Curacao in P

TUI Airlines Nederland Boeing 787-8 Curacao - Amsterdam in P

Air Canada Boeing 787-8 Toronto - London in Y

ANA Boeing 787-8 Shanghai Pudong - Tokyo Narita in C

United Boeing 787-9 Los Angeles - Houston in C



Train:

CFR Calatori Bucharest - Istanbul Halkali in Sleeper Car

EuroNight Jan Kiepura Cologne - Warsaw in Sleeper Cabin

China High Speed Rail Shanghai - Xiamen in F

Caledonian Sleeper Train Inverness - London Euston in Sleeper Cabin

French TGV High Speed Train: Barcelona - Paris in F

China High Speed Rail Guangzhou - Shanghai Hongqiao in Y

Swiss Railways Lötschberg Mountain Line Bern - Brig in F

Ukraine Railways Kiev - Budapest in Sleeper Cabin

Virgin Trains West Coast London - Glasgow in F



Enjoy!