^ Thanks! (I'll update the training flights thread appropriately)

Cheers :)

Tracking new fleet arrivals in 2013
 

Just done the Bowing Everett tour today and saw 2 BA 787-800's all liveried up and ready to go, plus a BA 777-300 in the final stages of assembly.

In addition, the only currently assembled 787-900 completed and dressed in Boeing colours just a few planes down from BA's 787-800s.

Nice! Was that the public tour or invitation? I ask since I've done the VIP invitation tour, but keen on doing the public one next month when in SEA.

Here's a question, will the next 773 be delivered with the refreshed CW cabin? Seems odd not to...

Nice! Was that the public tour or invitation? I ask since I've done the VIP invitation tour, but keen on doing the public one next month when in SEA.

Hi there,

The routes I believe are:

HKG - the BA27/28 returns to a 777-300
SYD - the BA15/16 remains a 777-300
GIG - new route for a 777-300

This gives a schedule that could roughly look like:

Day 1:LHR-GIG
Day 1: GIG-LHR arr Day 2
Day 2: LHR-SIN arr Day 3
Day 3: SIN - SYD arr Day 4
Day 4: SYD-SIN-LHR arr Day 5
Day 5: LHR-NRT* arr Day 6
Day 6: NRT*-LHR
Day 6: LHR-HKG arr Day 7
Day 7: HKG-LHR arr Day 8 (which would be day 1 to go out again)

* I have used NRT here but could be PVG, JFK or plenty of other destinations would fit.

So the bottom line is 1 more destination and probably not every day as they generally like a day or 2 downtime for each frame. My guess would be somewhere for 5 days/week but maybe someone else can see from other sources.

FD.

I haven't looked comprehensively at all the dates in the season, but as far as I can see HKG is usually going to be a 772. The 77W seems to be scheduled only on a couple of days a week.

Oh - OK - I had not looked in that much detail and had assumed that the 777-300 would go back on that route.

This would make some sense: 12F (minor reduction) and 48J (again a minor reduction) but the big thing is only 127Y - a huge reduction and Y is very hard to fill on that route....

Shame though as the 777-300 does feel more spacious it has to be said...

FD.

it was just the public tour, nice enough - bit of Boeing marketing video to start, a bus trip across the field to the hangar and a view from overhead platforms of the 747-8 (all freighters), 777 & 787 lines, it is obviously aimed more at the novice tourist end of the market than the FT'er end :)

BJC should be arriving at LHR tomorrow morning (3/9). ^

Excellent news, do you know when JD is due?

Tracking new fleet arrivals in 2013
 

Petrus, it was the public tour, well worth doing.

It did, saw it this morning.

BJC scheduled to operate on 7th for the first time.

BJD still in Seattle awaiting delivery.

How many hours simulator time would a BA pilot do before flying the 787 for the first time? Roughly how many pilots would they have at the moment certfied on it?