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The last British Airways Boeing 767 flight took place yesterday

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At 22.35 last night, the arrival of the British Airways flight from Larnaca marked the final commercial Boeing 767 flight for the airline.

Both remaining aircraft are due to fly out of Heathrow on Monday to the BA maintenance facility in Wales – I’m not sure what will become of them but it seems unlikely they will fly again.  There were originally 11 aircraft in the fleet, with the first arriving in 1989.  At one point the fleet grew to 28 although many ended up being leased to other airlines.

I was thinking of putting together an article on the British Airways 767 fleet but it turns out that it has already been done, far better than I could have done it, in this article by a BA pilot.  I strongly recommend you read it if you’re interested in this sort of thing.

In truth, it is being polite to say that the British Airways fleet had seen better days.   The regular random pinging of call bells was a common complaint, something which gets annoying on a four hour flight, as were complaints over water leakage from the galley running down the cabin.  And the broken seats.  And arm rests.  And tray tables.  And the locked-out loos ….

You can either remember them via the picture I used above, or via this picture taken a couple of weeks ago by a friend of mine (click to enlarge):

British Airways Boeing 767

Half of seat 2J has just vanished.  The delights of Club Europe ….

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Comments (106)

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  • Kev says:
    26 Nov26 November 05:51

    At least the seat in CE was much more comforable than the current offering on the newer short-haul fleet.

    • D Morton says:
      26 Nov26 November 12:53

      Agreed
      Despite the cabin conditions of the 767 going into decline, they remain one of my favourite aircraft. I would always try to book the 767 on Athens/Istanbul runs and being on a twin aisle wide body it just felt a bit more comfortable than A319/20s. It also gave you the opportunity to ‘turn left’ on Club Europe Flights and awarded direct aisle access for the two CE seats in the middle. Single aisles and tight seating now the only option.

  • Stu R says:
    26 Nov26 November 06:03

    For info, there were actuallly a total of 28 Boeing 767s in BA’s fleet (not sure where you got 11 from Rob?) albeit a handful of them (7 I think) spent most of their lives on lease to Qantas down under.

  • ROBERT FREUDMANN says:
    26 Nov26 November 07:13

    I believe 11 was the initial 767 order announced in 1987.

  • Allan says:
    26 Nov26 November 07:31

    What is going to happen to the routes previously serviced in the mornings by 767 like EDI, AMS, FRA etc?

    • Graham Walsh says:
      26 Nov26 November 07:59

      Sure I travelled on one EDI > London. 1/4 full it was.

      OT Anyone on twitter, a funny account to follow https://twitter.com/alexcruzmaybe

      • Allan says:
        26 Nov26 November 08:07

        That probably would be the evening one going back after it was 100% full from LHR-EDI

        • David says:
          26 Nov26 November 09:51

          I think the A321neos will have a comparable number of seats to the B767? In the meantime, maybe you’ll get lucky with some occasional B772s or B788s! More likely just some A321ceos though, I’d have thought.

        • Stu_N says:
          26 Nov26 November 10:58

          There used to be a 767 on the first morning flight from LHR to EDI that was very busy; return leg around 1000 was generally pretty quiet. Last flight LHR-EDI was also a 767 which overnighted in Edinburgh and went back full the next morning.

          A 767 is 260 passengers; 5 or 6 rows of Club Europe, not quite full probably meant 220 economy and 20 CE. A321s are approx 220 seats, you’d need 5-6 rows of CE leaving about 190 economy seats, so you are losing 30 seats or 15% of capacity on EDI peak flights. Not great.

      • Alan says:
        26 Nov26 November 22:07

        Interesting – they’ve been totally rammed when I’ve flown them a few times – not sure how they’ll cope with the downsizing!

        • Brian Webb says:
          26 Nov26 November 23:38

          +1 I’ve used the red eye 762 EDI to LHR for the last few years and it was nearly alway full.

  • Anna says:
    26 Nov26 November 08:28

    OT – HH. I’ve booked a rare pre-paid night at a Hilton – will I get the HH points for the spend straight away or after I’ve stayed? It’s showing as pending on my Amex at the moment, so I’m assuming they have taken the payment immediately.

    • Rob says:
      26 Nov26 November 08:34

      Only after the stay.

      • Oh Matron! says:
        26 Nov26 November 08:53

        And from what I’ve experienced, points are posting the day after a stay since the (bungled and elongated) IT upgrade

      • David says:
        26 Nov26 November 08:54

        On that topic, is anyone else’s honors account page ‘broken’? I can access my account, see my total points etc. But try to go to ‘past stays’ to see the points for each stay etc and it errors. The app is the same – it won’t update anything from the past few weeks. It’s really annoying!

        • RussellH says:
          26 Nov26 November 15:24

          I can see all my past stays from 31 Dec last year; all works fine.

          But still no sign of any points crediting since IT upgrade. I am due 7000 from e-Reards and 2400 from Hilton Visa; before the upgrade these would credit within 36 hours max. Amex MR transfers were about the same.

          e-Rewards say that Hilton transfers now take up to 3 weeks – currently 3 days short of that, and 5 days since my Visa bill should have triggered the points. By contrast, Hilton tell me that it takes 30 days for e-rewards transfers to credit.
          Hmmmm….

    • Jon says:
      26 Nov26 November 13:34

      …although the current Amex £50 statement credit offer works fine with prepaid stays where the stay is next year – despite the T&C requiring the stay to be completed this year.

    • Alan says:
      26 Nov26 November 22:07

      Always after the stay – no stay, no points!

  • FIRSTclstraveller says:
    26 Nov26 November 08:41

    Must have been very pleasant flying in the 8 seat long haul First configuration.

  • Sam says:
    26 Nov26 November 08:44

    OT

    Has anybody tried to buy giftcards with the WH Smiths Amex (£5 off £15) offer?

    Need to buy a load for christmas and not sure whether I’m better going through Smiths or Morrisons for the 10% off

    • Genghis says:
      26 Nov26 November 08:47

      Yes. I got Netflix

      • Neil says:
        26 Nov26 November 08:53

        +1

      • Robman says:
        26 Nov26 November 08:57

        O/T, is the Amex transfer bonus to Hilton Honours a good value use of MR points. I can’t figure out the maths. My wife has 30k MR points. So converts to 90k Hilton points. Which depending on value assigned to a HH point is between £270 (0.3p per point) or £360 (0.4p per point). I’m trying to figure out whether this is the best value usage of the points. Alternatively can she transfer her MR points to my MR account?

        • Genghis says:
          26 Nov26 November 09:00

          Depends what you would otherwise use them for. I think the HH offer is reasonable. Can’t transfer MR points any more

        • Jon says:
          26 Nov26 November 13:36

          Makes it comparable to Radisson and better airline redemptions so not bad at all. To my mind it’s the “fair” rate – the normal 2/1 ratio is poor.

      • Sam says:
        26 Nov26 November 09:24

        How long did this take to show up as redeemed?

        I bought £20 Playstation Credit yesterday, and my offers generally show as redeemed as soon as the payment is posted, but nothing so far.

    • Justin says:
      26 Nov26 November 09:03

      Have saved over £500 on kitchen appliances at John Lewis by buying vouchers at Morrison’s over the weekend. Cleaned out two local stores of all of their cards. The only issue is that while you can seemingly put through as many £25 vouchers as you want in one transaction JL/Moz have restricted the £50 ones to one per transaction. Took a long time to put them all through the till!

      • EwanG says:
        26 Nov26 November 09:49

        @Justin. Morrison’s *can* put >1 £50 JL gift card through in one transaction but it requires a duty manager override. Did this yesterday!

        • Justin says:
          26 Nov26 November 11:43

          Thanks, for the info. The duty manager did come over to ask why I was buying £2k of vouchers as they have to check for the retailer and money laundering. He looked confused when I said I was buying appliances but didn’t bat an eye lid and the lady on the till continue to put through transaction after transaction @ £50 each,

      • Tracy says:
        26 Nov26 November 09:53

        Have you seen the credit appled yet?

      • wetboy1uk says:
        26 Nov26 November 12:20

        another greedy person

    • Mark2 says:
      26 Nov26 November 09:05

      Yes to using gift cards at WHS.
      But you can only buy £15 per card (at 33% discount) whereas Morrisons is unlimited.

    • Crafty says:
      26 Nov26 November 09:16

      Works fine and in the two shops I’ve used you can do custom amounts so exactly £15 per card is an option.

    • RussellH says:
      26 Nov26 November 10:11

      Yes, I bought a £13 book token and the day’s Guardian last Wednesday – £5 credit posted this morning.

      That on PRG – I have the offer on my BA Amex too, so will repeat soon. Nice to see some useful offers for a change – spent £40 at Wilko yesterday on bird treats – 25% discount is good.

    • Dave Barron says:
      26 Nov26 November 10:33

      Yes I had success across 2 Amex cards buying Amazon vouchers. In addition I bought Gift Cards at both Superdrug and Wilkos successfully 😀

  • Oh Matron! says:
    26 Nov26 November 08:54

    767: terrible aircraft. Have flown on many a delta 767. I normally sit by an emergency exit behind the wings. Noisy is an understatement and I normally have the cram blankets into the gaps as it’s hideously cold.

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