Originally Posted by JW95

Morning all,

Does anyone know if BA plan on a fleet replacement for the LGW 777s? I know that these were all refurbished circa 2018, however, they are all well over 20 years old now, some of them being even older than some of the 774s were when they left the fleet. There have been numerous articles about BA in talks for 777 replacements, but these seem to centre mostly on a direct replacement for the 772s based at LHR, and not the LGW 777s. I feel that BA wouldn't wish to reduce seat capacity on the LGW fleet, having densified the 777s, so hard to imagine them ordering the A350-900 and/or 787-9. Perhaps ordering more A35K and configuring these in a leisure-heavy layout could work for them? VS have done something similar where half of their A350s have a leisure configuration - which were originally intended for LGW once the 744s left.