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Good Morning
I managed to secure a pretty sweet BA First deal for early next year (BA0262 – Riyadh to LHR). Is there any way I can identify the exact variation of First Class? As I understand there are a few different styles/ages. Is there a method to working out which variation it will be?
Any help is much appreciated!
Do a dummy booking on BA.com and look at the seat map – if there are 8 seats, and the aircraft is a 777 as it usually is, you may find that you have the 2020 first class product with doors. Subject to aircraft swaps!
Do a dummy booking on BA.com and look at the seat map – if there are 8 seats, and the aircraft is a 777 as it usually is, you may find that you have the 2020 first class product with doors. Subject to aircraft swaps!
From seat Map configurator on my booking, there are 8 seats! Does the older First Class have bigger cabins? thanks.
To add to the above – as a general rule the 777-300 has 2020 suite with doors, the 787-9 and 787-10 have the 2015 suite without doors, and the 777-200 & A380 have the 2010 old style seat. You can figure out exact aircraft type from using the BA dummy booking + seat maps on aerolopa (look at the seat layout in J or Y to figure out exact type), and aerolopa will show you which seat variant you will get, their maps even show the doors on the new suite.
Riyadh usually has a 777-300 and some days there is a 2nd flight with a 787, all of which have 8 seats. I don’t know of differences in cabin size, but aerolopa also gives you the seat dimensions.
I don’t think the number of seats tells you much useful in itself, it’s the aircraft type that matters, with the variations as above.
There are only two 14F 777s left, which will be gone in the next few months. After that 14 seats means an A380, otherwise there are detail variations in the layout but the aircraft type is the easiest differentiator.
I don’t think the difference in the type of seat will make any real difference to your experience. What will, is whether or not you get a good cabin crew, and that is entirely down to luck. Your experience will be either be wonderful, or disappointing. I hope you are lucky.
Personally, I would only upgrade to First now if it meant avoiding the old yin yang Club World dormitory.
Yeah to be fair i’m not pinning all hopes on this flight. It was a decent redemption, relatively short flight and will just allow a few hours sleep.
It cost 88,000 + £310.40 for me, my wife and baby (+10%) (inc companion voucher) so cannot really grumble..
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