FAQ : BA Club Suite tracker : (When) Will I get the new CS seat on my flight?
 

Hello,

I thought I would start this thread and I'll add a wiki as I have sometime on hands at the moment.

As suggested in the general discussion about the new Club Suite, we are bound to get lots of "when or will I?" type queries about the new CS, so I thought I would start this thread for it.

Heres what we know so far:

Roll out (there 3 phases for roll out of the seat):

Phase 1:

• The first aircraft to have the seat will be the Airbus A350 - being delivered summer 2019 (currently planned for July delivery)
• Short haul flights between LHR - MAD (unconfirmed dates or flights until delivery date is given by Airbus, 30 days prior)

Phase 2:

• From Oct 2019 flights to Toronto (BA92/93) and Dubai (BA107/106)
• 3 more A350 (4 in total) to be delivered with the new CS.
• 2 x 777 will be refitted with the new CS

Phase 3:

• Beginning in 2020 more of the long haul to be fitted with the new seat.

Who wants to be the first to guess which aircraft or route will have the seat next year? Anything beyond the four A350's and the two 777's in 2019 seem to be unknown.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...57990e0477.png

If the production rate for the seat is only 3 per day, it's going to be at least 5 years for a full rollout.

slightly off thread, but is the Toronto route on the 92/93?? I went through the booking process and the later flight says dreamliner and the earlier flight doesn't given an aircraft type

Thanks

Is this the thread you were looking for? https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...my-flight.html

Hi,

I belive so. If says aircraft type not defined then it should be the A350

Regards

TBS


It does look excellent and look forward to trying it ( probably in 2020 depending on the 2020 rollout)

I can confirm it is the 92/93 flight numbers. Once the booking is made, the aircraft type is defined as 351 in MMB, with an appropriate seat plan.

This thread is a good step forward for the benefit for the forum, and thank you @rockflyertalk for starting it. Just one improvement would be to not just focus purely on which aircraft will have or not have the new Club Suite, since there are also many questions about which aircraft will be operating a poster's flight - for reasons such as wifi provision, which type of IFE, which version of WTP or even more odd if there is a specific livery on the outside. Could we make the scope of this good thread wider, in order to 'catch all' of these daily questions?

Any chances of this going on the SIN onwards to SYD route?

While having no knowledge of internal workings of BA I would say not until a lot more aircraft are fitted out. Reasoning being, look at the direct competition. Although you can get EK and other connecting options which people may rate better than BA, the only "direct routing" competition is QF where they use the A380 which does not have direct aisle access.

You also need to look at fleet utilisation, from memory it takes 3 frames to do the route. BA would get a better rate of return with the limited frames by using the on routes which only require a single frame to operate.

The 350 is gone from YYZ after March 28 for probably a couple of years if not for good. Which is it's next route?:D