British Airways to refurbish the A380 fleet?

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• will says:

  25 Feb25 February 11:13

  Fantastic planes to travel on and hope to see them remain for some time to come.

  Real shame we didn’t see a -900 NEO with new wing.

• AJA says:

  25 Feb25 February 13:10

  I do hope BA does this and does reintroduce the A380. I have never flown on it but from all accounts it appears to be a lovely plane for passengers. I like the idea of all upper deck Club Suite too. I am sure they will be able to very nearly fill it but it also means the opportunities for upgrades must increase.

  • BJ says:

    25 Feb25 February 15:21

    If you are ever in SE Asia, BKK-HKG is a good route to try any cabin relatively inexpensively on EK (provided they’ll still operate it).

    • AJA says:

      25 Feb25 February 16:30

      Thanks BJ, interesting idea. I have this long time plan to combine a trip to Thailand with visiting both Singapore and Hong Kong so ideally would fly LHR – SIN – BKK / USM – HKG – LHR. About a year ago I found I was searching for hols for this month (Feb 2021) and found a fantastic deal flying Qantas LHR to SIN on the A380 and then Cathay Pacific back from HKG to LHR in J on their A350 for £1600 and was trying to book SIN – USM and then USM – HKG on Bangkok Airways using BA code shares but then Covid struck. Fortunately never actually pressed the button.

      • BJ says:

        25 Feb25 February 19:18

        That’s an excellent trip and deal. CX is my partners favourite business class. Personally I’d give Samui a miss in favour of other Thai destinations but that’s just me. I might be wrong but I think you can only book Bangkok Airways via BA when it connects with a BA flight, others can confirm or not. If you had the time another option might be to take the VIP bus from Singapore to KL, have a couple of days there and then do a cheap J redemption on MAS to HKT using avios. BKK-HKG is an avios sweet spot, CX regional J or if it still operates the route using a longhaul aircraft Sri Lankan would be better still. IIRC Royal Jordainian also operate the route and you can fly them BKK-KUL too (at least you could in the past).

• mark2 says:

  25 Feb25 February 17:37

  We have travelled to and from Vancouver in F on a 380 (different trips) and enjoyed it.
  I am concerned that the shrinking of the cabin will have an impact on F availability for redemptions.

  • BJ says:

    25 Feb25 February 19:22

    BA have also dropped Calgary (very surprising to me) so that vould put pressure on reward availability to Vancouver too.

    • mark2 says:

      25 Feb25 February 21:22

      True but Calgary was 788, so no F.

  • ChrisC says:

    25 Feb25 February 21:52

    I can’t remember if it was Willie or Alex that said it but they thought there were too many redemptions (and staff) flying in F and they would rather have cash paying passengers.

    So a reduced size cabin would fit with that line of thinking.

    Not that BA guarentee any F rewards anyway

  • Will says:

    25 Feb25 February 22:08

    Although F is nice, with club suite I’d take more business seats and no F if it means overall more chance of getting an avios seat in business.

• Paul Provost says:

  26 Feb26 February 02:36

  This would be so awesome. Especially with two first cabins. One up one down. And the gloriously huge lavs you can put on a 380! Count me in.

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