At today’s Capital Markets Day presentation British Airways announced that the 40J/24W/216Y configured London Gatwick Boeing 777-200ER fleet will be reconfigured to 32J/48W/252Y configuration with ten abreast seating in Economy Class from early 2018. With the addition of 52 seats comes the removal of three toilets. At present there are five aircraft in 40J/24W/216Y configuration, however the presentation states that 25 Boeing 777s will be converted to ten abreast seating in Economy. It is not clear what the other twenty aircraft are.
It was announced at today’s Capital Markets Day presentation that British Airways will put its London Heathrow based shorthaul Airbus fleet through a further densification program with the A320 fleet seat count increasing from 168 to 180 seats from Winter 2017 and the A321 fleet seat count increasing from 205 to 218 from Summer 2018.
Taken from The BA Source. So what happens to the LHR 777 fleet and what will happen when it comes to retiring these 20+ year old aircraft? What will they be replaced with?