BA fleet: confirmed information on aircraft deliveries, refurbishment and retirements
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Welcome to the new BA fleet: confirmed news and information on aircraft deliveries, refurbishment, and retirements thread. The purpose of this thread is to allow us to track developments concerning the British Airways aircraft fleet based at London Heathrow and London Gatwick as well as the BA CityFlyer fleet based at London City and Edinburgh airports, and is a continuation of the popular BA Fleet : New aircraft arrivals and retirements master tracker thread.
We'd like to reserve this thread for known, confirmed updates but as many of you enjoy discussing this topic in speculative terms, we've set up a sister thread to cater for this need which you can follow here
Please follow the wiki post attached to this thread to track the latest developments and status of the fleet. For illustrative purposes, a brief summary of the fleet is provided below, listed from the dinky and beautifully proportioned A318 to the gargantuan A380.
Airbus A319

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Airbus A320 family

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Airbus A321 family

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Boeing 787-8

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Boeing 787-9

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Boeing 787-10

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Boeing 777-200ER

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Boeing 777-300ER

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Airbus A350-1000

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Airbus A380-800

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BA CityFlyer fleet
Embraer E190

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Casualties of COVID-19 - fleet retirements of 2020/21
British Airways fleet
Airbus A318 [withdrawn from service]

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Boeing 747-400 [withdrawn from service. Aircraft retirements commencing 18 August 2020]

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BA CityFlyer fleet
Embraer E170

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Last edited by Prospero; Jan 17, 21 at 8:32 am
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G-YMMK confirmed as having had the majority of its seats removed to enable cargo to be carried in the cabin
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...ger-cargo-use/
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...ger-cargo-use/
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G-YMMK confirmed as having had the majority of its seats removed to enable cargo to be carried in the cabin
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...ger-cargo-use/
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...ger-cargo-use/
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It’s interesting that they’ve left the First cabin intact given these aircraft are to be converted to a 3-class configuration. You’d have thought that all cabins would’ve been removed to make the 3-class fit-out quicker when the time comes.
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It was mentioned on another thread that the F cabins are being used as an expanded crew rest facility as the crew operating the return flight travel on the outbound.
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As mentioned the F cabin is required for crew rest to operate under extended FTLs. The normal crew rest facility is inoperable under freighter config and so keeping F was the easiest way around it I guess
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But it’s being put back every single week. They’re taking delivery of the A350s on time. This frame was supposed to be ready back in January!
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