British Airways B777-300ER to Sydney

[Daniel Ayto]

From March 30th, 2013, British Airways will upgrade the BA15/16 services to an B777-300ER, hence replacing the B747 :(.


Link:

http://www.ausbt.com.au/ba-upgrades-kangaroo-route-to-boeing-777-shifts-to-heathrow-t5

[Brandon Giacomin]

G-BNLF will be the last BA B747 to fly to Sydney. She is due in at 0700 tomorrow morning and is due out at 1640. April 2nd will see the Boeing 777-300ER's flying to Sydney.

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi,

Any chance that BA could return to Melb, now that QF has ceased Melb-LHR via SIN??

Stuart

[Alex Lui]

G-STBF is operating the inaugural BA15 on a 777-300ER.

As for BA returning to Melbourne, I doubt it. Aviation world has changed that much that a LOT of airlines would rather feed into Australia from an Asian carrier. That's why BA have sort of gotten into bed with Cathay Pacific via HKG.

For BA to return to Melbourne, it requires a lot of aircraft which I think BA don't have at the moment.

my 2c worth.

Alex.

[Ash W]

No chance Stuart. As Alex said the world has changed so much and it isn't really worth it.

That is why there are just 3 airlines that operate from Australia to Europe end to end (so discount hub from Asia). So be grateful there is one flight a day on BA, two on Qantas and of course lets not forget one a day on VS too.