Originally Posted by
Plastic787
If that turns out to be true it’s not particularly surprising, the 787-10 has better operating economics on the vast majority of routes that an A350-900 would perform for BA and doesn’t need the extra range of the latter. It’s also available at a better price than Airbus are prepared to offer. The A350-1000 is a brilliant aircraft no doubt and I’m sure BA are very happy with it but it’s too much aircraft to act as a natural replacement for the 777-200.
What would get BA creaming in their pants now (and has been communicated to us) is the prospect of mixed fleeting the 777-9 with the 787 and doing something similar with the A350 and A380. I think it’s always going to be beyond them, however.
Would be interesting to see the fate of the 777-300s in this instance given that’s going to end up another small fleet. A top up order for A350-1000s could be in the offing for that if ustrategically the decision was to replace them but, as you said that won’t be for a while yet.
BA can’t even find line training sectors for cruise only FOs so there is zero chance of a massive training programme to dual rate 350/380