I like this pic with the B744 below, BA Boeing past and present.

Just a thought, but now that she has finally arrived, is it worth closing this thread so that all future deliveries can be tracked in the usual thread?

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...tirements.html

Concorde too in the third image :tu:

Fine by me, I only posed the original whereabouts question because the above link was so clogged up with other fleet changes it was difficult to determine. Now the 787-10 is now confirmed in fleet, it makes perfect sense to go there.

Now looking forward to photos of the First cabin on this 781

Not too different from the First cabin on the 787-9

it should be very similar to what’s on the -9. I’d like to see the club suite set up on this aircraft

IIRC, it's the same seat, just minus the buddy seat

I think the IFE and handset for the F seat in the 787-10 is a bit better than on the 787-9?

There's no buddy seat on the 789 either. Or, rather, there is but there's the screen in the way.

Hopefully they have improved the material/design to reduce the wear along the edge of the shelf and also on the seat controls (so you can actually see what the icons are for the latter!). Wonder is there will be any other minor differences?

The 787-9 seats also don't have a buddy seat. There are various design differences between the 787 ones and the rest, most notably the larger, fixed IFE screen at the expense of the buddy seat, but also a revised shelf/table design (creating space underneath the shelf - great for extra sleeping room).

Then it's really a good reason to 'enhance' it, no? :)

Indeed it is, the IFE system is the same as that found on the A350, Panasonic eX3 series, so from what I've seen the controller in F is the same as that found on the Club Suite

I was told some time ago that changes have been made to ensure that there's no repeat of the leather trim issue, not sure about the seat controls/icons. On that note, the retrofit of a fix for the damaged leather across the -8 and -9 fleet has been pushed back quite considerably due to COVID-19.

Any idea when the 78X will be out on revenue service?

G-ZBLB in CHS
 

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...1a17f4c53.jpeg

Some pics on Twitter of the 2nd 787-10 pre delivery.

Here:

She’s looking super shiny!

shame no pics of inside the cabin.

Only 2 at the moment.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...9a76ce4d7.jpeg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d221aabf4.jpeg

G-ZBLA is scheduled for a freighter service, BA193F, to DFW on Saturday 4 July. Looks like it'll be doing DFW freight flights for at least the next week or so.

Just casually looked out of my window and saw G-ZBLA on the approach into Heathrow from Dallas. Bit of a coincidence but she looks great!

Here’s some more interior shots of G-ZBLB that I saw on Twitter:


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...620c06a1f.jpeg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...dc88b3602.jpeg
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...bf1923f83.jpeg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...baf8dae4f.jpeg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ccb5ba3bb.jpeg

Thank you BAeuro for the images.

******************

Isn't it strange that people claim that the 787-10 would not have crew bunks but the first three rows in the middle have locked overhead compartments rather than a locker that you could stow the baggage. I assume that area is a crew bunk like 787-8's.

So, basically First is exactly the same as on the 789 (although I’d have loved not have a fisheye photo so to check whether the frayed edge solution had been implemented) whilst WT+ and WT are in the 777 Panasonic and 350 style. I can see a great lack of IFE boxes in some of those WT seats!

Cabin or Flight crew bunks?

you mean the 2 rows of First?

The 78X has a flight crew rest area, but not cabin crew rest area at the back.

Exactly, my bad.

I was asking for cabin crew as some people were claiming that the BA 787-10 would not be able to complete the longer long-haul routes.

Thanks for this information.

Allost but a few minor changes. They’ve modified the edge of the side table. The leather is now on a strip along the top rather than going a round the edge itself. Should be much more hard wearing hopefully. It’s not easiest to see in those pictures unfortunately.

Absolutely should’ve put doors on the F seats!

To further expand on the crew bunks:

All BAs longhaul fleet have flight crew bunks.

The 787-10 and the G-VIIx 772s don’t have cabin crew bunks so limits the routes of the 787-10 in BAs fleet to those done by the G-VIIx 772s. So no further than SEA/DFW and some Caribbean routes along with the Middle East, and shorter African routes.

The rest of the longhaul fleet have cabin crew rests so not limited by this.

ah, great, at least that bit is sorted on the 78X. I remember the conversations with one of the cabin engineers when this first appeared... 2017 if memory serves me right. Let’s hope it eventually rolls out to the 789.

The -VIIx 777s don’t have flight crew bunks. Just ‘high comfort’ jumpseats and 3 WT seats blocked for crew use.

Does anyone else think it’s odd that the Speedmarque is at the back of the WTP cabin? That is usually positioned at the front of each cabin section.

Could it be due to the shape of the front cabin divider? Might not fit?

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...b789b7269.jpeg

Ah yes that must be the reason. I hadn’t seen a picture of the front divider. It’s a weird design to be honest, the way it is narrower at the top and gives a good view into CW. Of course that’s without the curtain.

The fix for the leather trim for the 789 has been pushed back till 2021 at the earliest.

With regards to the missing cabin crew bunks, the 787-10 also lacks the galley space to provide a second hot meal service. Both of these reasons restrict the routes the aircraft will be used on.

Probably like that to allow crew to see the whole cabin for Take-off / Landing without needing one of those flip up windows. The closed curtain then gives privacy inflight -- at least no one in Club is staring backwards into WTP during take-off like with the old seat!

Don't think doors would fit given the relatively narrow cabin - they likely would have had to remove the 'in-seat wardrobe' to install a door. In all honestly the first cabin on the 787-9 / -10 is far more private than the Club Suite even without the low door and I'd rather have the additional storage in my seat area..

the difference between FIRST and CLUB is usually not a lot. I think a different colour palette might have differentiated between them better. One looks like a continue of the other in those photos. Might be different in reality, of course. The soft product is different too. But small difference like the black window surrounds on the 777 and 747 make a big visual impact.

True. The narrow part of the divider does seem to be inline with the outer edge of the overhead bin, so it looks quite neat, to my mind. Although the position of the divider makes it seem like those lockers are permanently out of use? I think the 777s have flip-down areas in the dividers to allow the bins to be opened?

The CW aisle looks very narrow in this pic, is it narrower than A350?

definitely looks wider than the 350

I would expect so.

The a350 has a cabin width of 5.61m whereas the 781 is 5.49m.

If the seats are the same size it means 6cm less space on each aisle