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Old Jun 28, 2016 | 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by jeffMCI
Also, anybody know why this is scheduled as a 787-8 and not a -9? BA seems to market the BWI flight as a Washington DC flight, and my understanding is that there is a lot of F and C demand out of the DC area.
The 767 is a 3-class aircraft: 24J / 24W / 144Y.

The 788 is 35J / 24W / 154Y. So it's quite close to being a like-for-like replacement, and therefore seems to me to be unsurprising.
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