Originally Posted by
GROUNDHOG
Thanks Harry, but does anyone know what will or is likely to replace the 747 on LHR/YVR please?
I would expect YVR to remain a 747 route for years to come. BA have one of the largest fleets of them in the world and at the current rate of new aircraft orders I anticipate there will be a number of them still in service in 10 years time.
This would be the case as long as the revenue holds up, otherwise a drop down to the 777-300ER would be the most likely change. There are still some more of these to be delivered to BA in the future, filling the size gap between the A380 and the 787.
After many years in the 1960s-70s of leaving Vancouver to Air Canada, BA discovered that there is a lot of long-haul connecting traffic out of there to the rest of Europe, and indeed to India and Africa, and Vancouver being one of the mining engineering and also shipping centres of the world, quite an amount of business traffic. Both cities are also film/entertainment industry centres for their respective regions, London long established while Vancouver has become a West Coast cheaper (and more visually attractive) alternative to Hollywood. The days when the route was one for visiting granny in the summer on Wardair are well in the past.