Originally Posted by
george77300
The 787-10 will have pilot crew rest, but not cabin crew rest. Same as the G-VIIx B777 fleet. This is far more limiting than the range of the 787-10, which is far more than lots like to make out.
The LHR-ORD is the furthest they can still send only 2 pilots, not the limit of cabin crew rest requirements. The G-VIIx fleet are consistently scheduled on routes such as SEA, MCO, KIN, CUN (which will have three pilots and longer than ORD, CUN approaches 10 hours) among many other destinations in the Caribbean.
While IAH will be no problem for the 787-10, the lack of cabin crew rest may well be as BA on the 777 flight send the G-YMMx frames with the crew rest.
Time will tell I’m sure. But the lack of cabin crew rest will be the limiting factor. And due to the cargo capability as others have mentioned, that may be a deciding factor on what routes it will operate.
Yes, it's fine from a Flight Crew point of view, but based on crew agreements, SEA/MCO/KIN/CUN should not be flown without cabin crew rest. This is circumvented by the fact that some of those 777s have the "enhanced" crew rest seat, namely a seat with armrests but otherwise not something really conducive to any rest... The bottom line is that BA shouldn't be putting those birds on those longer routes, but often do, and so will do with the 78K.