British Airways orders six more Boeing 787-10 aircraft

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• KP says:

  29 Jul29 July 09:59

  Im quite glad that the new seat is coming to Sepul. Im flying in Nov, booked on a £1400 buisness return. Looking forward

  • KP says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:59

    *seoul

• Tim P says:

  29 Jul29 July 10:14

  I prefer the new Finnair business seat over the usual reverse herringbone offering. If you think of it as a sofa rather than a seat it works well.

  Sadly the soft product is determinedly mediocre.

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  29 Jul29 July 11:01

  I rather liked the AY “sofa seat” far more comfy than anything else I’ve sat / laid in.

  True was only on the LHR-HEL route but people seemed to have no problem sleeping on it.

  Did feel a little strange not being fully upright for take off and landing though,

  Thought the AY crew were great and I got far more recognition as a BA OW emerald than BA ever give me!

• CC says:

  29 Jul29 July 11:05

  Trying to choose seats on Finnair website for booking made with Avios, I can choose seats all fine but when I try and click on basket to finish it just takes me back to home page. Does that mean its not possible?

  BA website wont let me, says only possible at check in (flight is next year).

  • PeteM says:

    29 Jul29 July 12:12

    Try the Royal Jordanian or Royal Air Maroc MMBs.

    • CC says:

      29 Jul29 July 14:13

      Thanks, tried Jordanian and oddly the seats I chose were already added and showing in my BA account too. Didn’t get the impression it went through at all on the Finnair site.

• LittleNick says:

  29 Jul29 July 11:32

  Seeing as they ordered more 787-10s curious as to why BA never ordered the A350-900 variant? Anyone got any theories as to why?

  • Londonsteve says:

    29 Jul29 July 11:36

    I was thinking that too. Airbus are famously doing better than Boeing at the moment and BA is lacking aircraft. I would guess the delivery lead time for the 787 was significantly shorter than for the A350. The latter seems to be the one the airlines are going for at the moment leading to a long wait if you join the back of the queue now.

    • LittleNick says:

      29 Jul29 July 17:11

      That would make sense now, but also curious as to why initially they only went for the -1000 variant and not -900 too?

      • Richie says:

        30 Jul30 July 13:28

        My guess is they wanted an aircraft for certain number of CS seats with good economics.

      • Rhys says:

        4 Aug4 August 09:07

        They don’t need many planes with the legs of the A350-900. Most of their flights are less than 11/12 hours.

    • Opus says:

      4 Aug4 August 08:27

      That’s where you’re wrong. The 787 order book is a 1717 aircraft compared the just 1050 for the a350. Boeing has sold almost 300 787s in the last 6 months, airbus is yet to sell 100 widebodies in that same period. In fact far more airlines go for the 787 because of its versatility. As airbus is finding out and has always known their widebodies are overrated and overpriced for what they are and till they can figure out a way to deal with the costs of building them, it will stay like that. Even during the pandemic the 787 outsold the 350. It’s just so much more versatile and as a family unit it’s the best widebody you can get (from an airline standpoint)

      On the narrow body side now they’re the market leaders but the widebody? They trail Boeing significantly

    • Opus says:

      4 Aug4 August 08:31

      Oh and the backlog?

      787 – 620 with about 1100 aircraft being delivered
      A350 – 480 with about 550 aircraft being delivered

      So Boeing has delivered twice the number of aircraft and still has a bigger backlog.

      So no airlines are actually not going for the 350, almost none actually
      That does not include Saudias 40 787s that is only being firmed in July so will be shown in Boeings August numbers.

• Julian says:

  29 Jul29 July 12:19

  Just putting this post on here, not about seats , see earlier post about seating on Finnair A350.Wondered if anyone else has had this happen.
  Am booking flight to Glasgow, as a BA Gold member on my phone it says 2500 Avois, but on home computer it says 1500 miles Avios award.
  Very interesting.

  • Londonsteve says:

    30 Jul30 July 18:19

    Website can be buggy. Sometimes the online calculator shows the Blue reward irrespective of what tier you choose.

• Steve says:

  29 Jul29 July 19:08

  Flew BKK-HEL (this is a day flight) with the new seat earlier this year and really didn’t enjoy it, would have been fine for an overnight but thumbs down otherwise.

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