Main VS 787 Thread

On a more serious note another emergency landing just now. I am still going to give this aircraft a wide birth

http://news.sky.com/story/1342602/dream ... in-glasgow

Reports States smell of smoke

Lol indeed. You can just imagine the Delta execs in their board meeting going "who's Ruby Murray?"!

I have just been laughing out loud at my desk, much to my colleagues confusion!

On a side note I guess now they've used UM they won't be able to add G-VBUM "J-Lo" to the fleet.

On a more serious note another emergency landing just now. I am still going to give this aircraft a wide birth

http://news.sky.com/story/1342602/dream ... in-glasgow

Reports States smell of smoke

I assume you're going to give Airbus A320's a miss then because they had a smoke incident a few weeks ago?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/ne ... /15848815/

Not to mention the VS A330 that had an emergency landing at LGW a couple of years back due to a smoke alert.

I assume you're going to give Airbus A320's a miss then because they had a smoke incident a few weeks ago?

People who are nervous about the 787 flight issues should definitely not look at the AVHerald - http://www.avherald.com.

It might put them off flying for ever. Or at least significantly reduce their flying options to a Sopwith Camel.

I have a query and wonder if anyone has an answer please?

We are planning to go over to the west coast in April 2015. Trying to get dates to go in & out of SFO but we are now considering flying into Boston and out of SFO as it's not so expensive using miles.

Following this Dreamliner thread , I see the VS11 flight from October 28th is on the new 787-9 but on Sunday March 29th 2015 the aircraft is reverting back to the
Airbus 340-300

Do you think this is due to the end of the winter scheduling and VS haven't decided if the 787 will continue on this Boston route. We plan to travel on April 15th and it's an Airbus 340 which is listed under the flight into

Any thoughts??

I have a query and wonder if anyone has an answer please?

We are planning to go over to the west coast in April 2015. Trying to get dates to go in & out of SFO but we are now considering flying into Boston and out of SFO as it's not so expensive using miles.

Following this Dreamliner thread , I see the VS11 flight from October 28th is on the new 787-9 but on Sunday March 29th 2015 the aircraft is reverting back to the
Airbus 340-300

Do you think this is due to the end of the winter scheduling and VS haven't decided if the 787 will continue on this Boston route. We plan to travel on April 15th and it's an Airbus 340 which is listed under the flight into

Any thoughts??

There won't be any A340-300's left in the fleet then I don't think.

VS' esteemed IT dept seem to use that type if the aircraft choice isn't known yet .

A Bloomberg article confirms VS's interest in taking up the remaining 5 orders on the 789.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-2 ... order.html

Does anyone have a previous link as I thought this was confirmed already?

However it also confirms some timetable for withdrawal of aircraft.

2x A343 - All gone by Feb 15
2x A346 - Gone by Jan 15
5x LHR 744 - Leave the fleet between Sept 15 - July 16

It might put them off flying for ever. Or at least significantly reduce their flying options to a Sopwith Camel.

Maybe a Tiger Moth instead. The Camel was notorious for bringing a premature end to life when not in combat.

I can't find the link but Virgin have already confirmed the 5 options on the 787-9's and now have 21 787-9's confirmed on order. I'm sure it was announced around about the same time as it was confirmed that the LHR 747's were leaving the fleet next year.

I've noticed on the VS 787 page that they mention 21 aircraft.

Weirdly the same reporter write a month earlier that they have 17x 787-9's on order!!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-0 ... fleet.html

There won't be any A340-300's left in the fleet then I don't think.

VS' esteemed IT dept seem to use that type if the aircraft choice isn't known yet .

Thank you for replying, sounds promising them

Discovered this on Twitter. Seems to be a list of all the reg's/names and delivery schedule:

From http://www.jethros.org.uk/fleets/fleet_ ... lantic.htm
Delivery and names
VAHH Dream Girl 11/14
VOOH Miss Chief 1/15
VZIG Dream Jeannie 2/15
VYUM Ruby Murray 4/15
VWHO Mystery Girl 6/15
VCRU Olivia Rae 8/15
VSPY Miss Moneypenny 11/15
VWOS Maia Marion 12/15
VDIA Lucy in the Sky 1/16
VBZZ Queen Bee 3/16
VMAP West End Girl 5/16
VFAN Pin Up Girl 6/16
VBOW Pearly Queen 3/17
VBEL Show Girl 1/18
VNYL Penny Lane 3/18

Seems a long gap after Pin Up Girl

Anyone know when the 6 A380 options expire?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-29377379

LOT Dreamliner emergency landing at Glasgow on Friday

[honey lamb]

Discovered this on Twitter. Seems to be a list of all the reg's/names and delivery schedule:

From http://www.jethros.org.uk/fleets/fleet_ ... lantic.htm
Delivery and names
VAHH Dream Girl 11/14
VOOH Miss Chief 1/15
VZIG Dream Jeannie 2/15
VYUM Ruby Murray 4/15
VWHO Mystery Girl 6/15
VCRU Olivia Rae 8/15
VSPY Miss Moneypenny 11/15
VWOS Maia Marion 12/15
VDIA Lucy in the Sky 1/16
VBZZ Queen Bee 3/16
VMAP West End Girl 5/16
VFAN Pin Up Girl 6/16
VBOW Pearly Queen 3/17
VBEL Show Girl 1/18
VNYL Penny Lane 3/18

Seems a long gap after Pin Up Girl

I'm disappointed that when G-VWIN leaves the fleet, they are not re-introducing G-VGIN and calling it honey lamb

[mitchja]

I wonder if it's got something to do with VS having already used the G-VGIN registration many years ago for one of their 742's (Scarlet Lady).

Maybe there's some CAA rule saying that cannot re-use aircraft registrations?

Are VS using the same seat width and pitch as BA in Y? The reviews seem to be universally Bad for BA's world traveler cabin. Seems like a step backward to me. I don't care how high the ceiling is or the mood lightening. at 6ft 2 all I care about is am I going to fit in the seat.

[Darren Wheeler]

VS are using 3-3-3 config in Y. Looking on Seatguru.com, that seems to be the most common config. The 787 is all about reduced running costs and increased profitability. Passenger comfort comes down the scale, especially in Y.

ISTBC but Japan Airlines is the only carrier with 2-4-2 in Y on its 787 fleet. Everyone else is 3-3-3.

On the delivery schedule, it looks like it'll be a few years yet before we see the back of the whole A340 fleet.

Flew back on BA 188 last week,a member of cabin crew told me they are re configing their 787s to 2-4-2.
This is from cabin crew feedback and passenger feed back.

That's very interesting.
I'm booked onto the 787 for my return from BOS on the 2nd of November.
The seat map does show the cabin to be a 3-3-3 config.

I've asked for extra legroom seats as well, and was told that it's only Row 47 which has these. Odd considering that puts it smack bang in the middle of Y.

I will keep you updated on my findings.

Flew back on BA 188 last week,a member of cabin crew told me they are re configing their 787s to 2-4-2.
This is from cabin crew feedback and passenger feed back.

Highly likely to be galley FM that. Reconfiguring to 2-4-2 would significantly affect the yield generated by the aircraft.

Flew back on BA 188 last week,a member of cabin crew told me they are re configing their 787s to 2-4-2.
This is from cabin crew feedback and passenger feed back.

Highly likely to be galley FM that. Reconfiguring to 2-4-2 would significantly affect the yield generated by the aircraft.

Yes indeed. I would imagine the rumours have come from the fact that the BA Y on the 787 is considered to be the worst experience in the fleet (small width, smaller legroom due to IFE constraints).

I can't imagine for one minute that BA would take out about 16 out of 154 seats - that would reduce capacity in Y by more than 10% which is a significant chunk of revenue.

Particularly given that they've just significantly reduced legroom in Club Europe so they can cram in an extra row down the back.

Apparently G-VNEW will be arriving at LHR this Sunday, 5th October.