Rigga
The reason I asked about freight doors (for passenger deck) was due to the statement in the Airbus quote re: passengers/freight/stretchers, all of which suggests that the seats can be removed for freight/stretchers as per the VC10 and Tristar. The freight door of the VC10 enable pallettes etc to be loaded (in the passenger compartment), as with Tristar, and for other bulky objects such as specialist stretchers (Iron Lung or equivilent )to be emplaned/deplaned. Whilst we now have the C17 there will only be 8 of them so the additional cargo capacity of the Voyager would have been useful. One other question is: do the seats face to the rear as in other RAF a/c?