KARFA

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Yet another trip report on the BA open day which happened at Heathrow on 6 June. There are already some nice reports which you can read:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...pe-f-wwcf.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...ne-2015-a.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...ne-2015-a.html

Also a very grateful thanks from me to LondonAndy who did get a ticket and kindly offered to guest me in – otherwise I may not have been able to go.

Here is the thread on the BAEC board all about the open day:http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-6th-june.html

So this report will be light on comments and heavy on photos. Hopefully you will enjoy it!

On Friday evening I stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn at Hatton Cross and was greeted by this view in the morning.








And once I met up with LondonAndy and FastTrak2Elite inside we went.

787-8






Flight deck








Club World




World Traveller


IFE box under every seat apart from the middle of each three




Very clean rear galley
















Rolls-Royce Trent 1000




Inside one of the hangars














Can’t think why this would be here with lots of frequent flyers around!


Tugs BA uses at T5, nortice the tug scoops up the front wheels and lifts them off the ground – no tow bar


A350










Concorde in the other hangar




SFO Mark Vanhoenacker, writer of recently published book Skyfaring






For those with a rubber fetish




The coffee machines which make the excellent onboard BA coffee


Part of a 747-400 MCP, and the FMS


A350




An economy toilet






Very large overhead bins


Monitoring station




















777-300ER










Double double deckers


Loving those GE90-115B1 engines
















First cabin




Club World






World Traveller Plus




Looking back up the aisle at Club World


World Traveller


Overhead crew rest area

KARFA

747-400 – still a very attractive plane






























Looking in to a RB211-524H




Heathrow fire service


And a few of T5 on the way home on Sunday






So, I hope you enjoyed this trip report. I will admit that it is really AvGeek porn – hopefully you can control your urges when looking at the photos

It was a really great day and I loved it. Hopefully BA will run one again next year.

LondonAndy

Great photos, glad to have been able to guest you in. LTNPhobia will probably be in touch asking you to take one of the photos down (you may be able to guess which one.....).

KARFA

Thanks LondonAndy, and sorted!

hkskyline

Wow the crew rest area is really spacious - better than J!

matthandy

Fantastic photos KARFA. I'm envious as I wish that I'd had the opportunity to attend. I can't imagine many other opportunities where you get to walk around a fleet of different aircraft like that.

AvidFlyer1990

Fantastic photos, KARFA. Awesome!

KARFA

It is nice. No windwos, and quite a low ceiling so you do have to bed to walk along, but the bed looks nice. No IFE though for the CC.

Thanks for the comments. Yes, great to get so close to many aircraft and walk inside, around, and under them. Although there have been BA open days in the past (last one was 2011), this was my first one. I really do hope this happens again next year.

Excellent weather as well which helped.

DL17

Thanks for sharing this super wonderful event with us. Awesome pictures

KARFA

Thanks DL17. Glad you enjoyed the photos

1010101

66k for a wheel

KARFA

It's a quality wheel, well worth the money

Dicksbits

Great photos. It truly was an amazing day!

KARFA

Thanks. Yes I really enjoyed it as well. Let's hope BA organise one in 2016.