Originally Posted by
FamilyOf6
Wouldn't converting the 3 ex-LGW birds to a 3-Class layout create a new sub-fleet? (since they are GE powered not RR) Crew-bunks is the other obvious difference between the VIIx and the YMMx. Could these be retrospectively fitted?
The only issue I would envisage was the lack of crew bunks (which can be easily handled with scheduling) given all the G-VII fleet (of which 14 of them are LHR based) have GE engines already, so adding in these 3 to the fleet wouldn’t create any engine sub-fleet issues, albeit I can see your point that they would be the only GE LHR based aircraft in 3-class vs 4-class, but you can argue they are already a sub-fleet at LHR.
All VII reg aircraft have GE engines and all YMM have RR and LGW already splits them with a fleet of 6 each.
Pilot37