BA reveals Airbus A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner seatmaps

[SteveJohnson]

This just came through at AusBT





BA reveals Airbus A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner seatmaps - Flights | hotels | frequent flyer | business class - Australian Business Traveller

 

[ozmille]

is it just me being blind or do I count 56 J class seats on the UD whilst it says 53 :shock:

Can't wait to give it go!

 

[vitagen]

I count 56 J upstairs too

 

[anat0l]

Maybe they're going to remove a couple of seats or so from the CW cabin upstairs, dunno.

They might need to do it.... I know these are draft plans and may be inaccurate, but I count:

• 2 WCs for F
• 4 for M CW (possibly shared with M WT)
• 2 for U CW
• 2 for WT+ (possibly shared with U WT)
• 2 for WT

Working on the seat counts provided and assuming that the "shared" toilets above split the WCs across the two cabins, the ratios work out to be:

• F: 7 pax : 1 WC
• CW: 26.5 : 1 UD, 22 : 1 MD; 24.25 : 1 overall
• WT+: 55 : 1
• WT: 34.67 : 1 UD, 49.75 : 1 MD; 43.29 : 1 overall

To put that in perspective against QF's new A380 config, for Economy, it's almost the same - QF UD Y does slightly better than BA UD Y (which of course the former benefits from having a much smaller "cabin" of 30 vs 104 pax), and in the MD QF and BA are pretty much on par, except on BA on the MD you might get some uppity-ness from CW and Y pax tussling over whether they should be sharing WCs or not. As for Business, BA does worse than QF. Finally for Premium Economy, 55 pax in a cabin doesn't really sound as exclusive... and that said there's going to be some competition between them and the Y cabin behind them to use their WCs.


I hope they have directional air vents on their new aircraft!

I'm also curious to see what BA have in store in terms of an "evolved" CW. The main problem, naturally, is that there aren't a lot of seats where one can sit and either not bother or be bothered in order for a pax to get to the aisle.

 

[lovestotravel]

Wow - That sure is a heap of J seats on the A380!

 

[Sprucegoose]

And when is all this eventuating?

 

[anat0l]

Wow - That sure is a heap of J seats on the A380!

With the A380, it's not terribly unusual - LH (96) and AF (80) have a similar number of seats on their A380s. Maybe it's a Euro regional thing (J travel required more).

It's about 60 - 70 elsewhere in the world, though KE also has 90+ J seats.

I'm more surprised that BA didn't try to get more CW seats, or even more WT seats, but instead have a rather large WT+ cabin.

 

[dajop]

Funny thing seeing 7 J seats across on the A380, after being used to just 4 on SQ! I guess it's what you're used, on my recent BA flight (in Y) I did walk through the J cabin (744) and I almost did a double take to check it wasn't Y+, the seats seemed so narrow and some of the seats so lacking in privacy..