I note the title has changed- there is now no longer '???' at the end of the title. Therefore, this thread is now giving a fact ,that is totally incorrect! No BA 747 flies with 8 exits on the maindeck. Is there anyway I can put that fact clearer so that you can understand? Can we kill this one please? The Classics that were configured thus were retired in the cutbacks post 911, and I think went roundabout Nov 2000. Don't you think it slightly unfair that BA is getting false adverse publicity about this? There were reasons the Classics were so configured- that was not the reason they were retired- the publicity at the time had dissipated. They were old and less efficient and BA needed to lose some hulls.
As this has now been adequately answered I really think this thread should be removed because of its title.