Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
News to me as well. Strange that they'd use it to LHR and not on the USA or Asia routes.
Could be for repatriations (they need the pax capacity) or more than likely its for cargo reasons. BA operates a twice weekly 787 freighter service to DME for that very reason (and yes, I know it used to fly to DME anyway pre-COVID but that was more for the product offering).
champ