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Update: British Airways 787 Business Class Full Trip Report
Last month I saw this thread about British Airways taking delivery of its new A380 and 787 and training the crews on intra-European routes. The A380 is flying for most of August between London and Frankfurt, and the 787 is flying between London and Stockholm.
Just by chance, I would be in Munich in August and had some friends I wanted to visit in London and Stockholm.
I booked myself a business class seat (Club World, though in this case Club Europe) on the A380 for 9,000 Avios and $40 from Frankfurt to London. I would have jumped at a First Class seat, but those seats were not for sale.
And I booked myself a business class seat on the 787 for 7,500 Avios and $140. The full price was 15,000 Avios and $40, but I chose the Cash & Avios option.
I flew the A380 Thursday, and I’m about to board the 787. I’ll give full trip reports on both, but I wanted to share of a few images of all cabins of the British Airways A380 in advance because it’s so beautiful.
Do the arms go up on the Premium Econ seats? I hate when they don’t.
Good question. I didn’t test out any of the actual seats besides business class.
Scorr, were these planes even full? If so, I’d assume there must be more aviation fanatics around the world 🙂
This flight had no one at all on the top deck. The lower deck business class was about 25% full. The 787 business class to Stockholm was packed and there were a few aviation fanatics onboard.
What a beauty! But I cannot believe why these big babies are placed on barely 90-minute flights. I remember LOT also used their Dreamliners on WAW-LHR-WAW flights.
I flew the 787 LHR-ARN today, which was a much nicer 2hr30min, but I definitely liked the A380 better.
@ Robert they are only using them on short routes to basically break them in for the crew. It is also part of training. Most airlines do that.
Wow, those First Class “suites” look underwhelming… to say the least.
Can’t wait to fly BA’s newest member of the fleet! Thanks for the news and photos.
[…] I recently had a chance to fly both a British Airways A380 and a British Airways 787 on intra-European flights in fully-flat business class beds for peanuts. The circumstances of the flights and some photos of the A380 are here. […]
Great article and photos thanks. But can’t really understand why BA would place any seats on a plane, let alone business class seats, the other way round?? The cabin does look contemporary but I have to say it is underwhelming and reminds me of the inside of a nice train carriage. If you compare their business class with Emirate’s A380 business class, you get so much more space on Emirates – their configuration is 1-2-1 I believe, double the space of BA’s 2-4-2!!
Backwards allows them to squeeze more horizontally because you get less width at the legs than the shoulders. It’s perfectly comfortable, but I haven’t flown Emirates Business, so I can’t compare the two.
[…] I recently had a chance to fly both a British Airways A380 and a British Airways 787 on intra-European flights in fully-flat business class beds for peanuts. The circumstances of the flights and some photos of the A380 are here. […]