Back to the future on 777s
In case anyone has forgotten, BA cabin crew reported feeling unwelll on 777s when they were newish. (2000+) BA said - nothing wrong. The union collated the incidents. It took over 200 hundred letters from BA 777 pax to the Daily Torygraph and constant articles in that paper by a certain journalist named Cole to get a reaction. BA said nothing wrong and that Cole was wrong.
9 months later BA admitted to airflow and pressurisation software issues and made changes on triple sevens. And yes there was a record of crew illness and pax illness. Mostly nose bleeds, dizzines, cardiac -minor symptoms and minor neuro obs.
The Torygraph put a Dr on a BA 777 flight to Miami (?) and found that his (monitored) blood oxygen level dropped in the cruise to below 75 per cent- below norms and not good for old folks thats for sure - (and yes there was an excess of old folks in the pax reports.)
Having had a go at the journo ( a specialist air transport type and not a panic in the skies merchant) BA basically admitted to knowing about the issues and to be working with Boeing on a fix. Since then nothing- now this - weird - one wonders if the newer variants have the original problem or something has changed?
I seem to recall that the newspaper articles and claims revolved around the "Ayling Airways" virtual BA 777 fleet out of LGW that had an extra row of seats across the cabin and aisles so narrow there were special food trolleys desinged for tehm- Florida and Cancun services? Clearly with so many extra seast and bodies on board (50+) the cabin air ration was altered...
See, like all things in the air- nuthin is new.