BA roll out first upgraded Boeing 777
23.01.12
Customers flying to New York’s Newark airport have been the first to experience British Airways’ latest seats and cabins following the first complete refit of one of the airline’s Boeing 777-200s. The plane was the first of 18 to be fitted with BAs recently launched First cabin, new World Traveller and World Traveller Plus cabins and the airline’s latest in-flight entertainment system.
The multi-million pound refurbishment will give the 18 Boeing 777-200s the same contemporary interiors as BAs six new Boeing 777-300ERs. It takes British Airways’ Cardiff-based engineers, at the airline’s Welsh maintenance base, approximately a month, or 5700 man hours, to remove a 777’s old seats and interiors and replace them with the airline’s very latest cabins. This also involves removing 13 kilometres of wiring and replacing it with new fibre optic cables to power the new in-flight entertainment system.
Over the next five years the airline will invest more than £5 billion in new aircraft, smarter cabins, upgraded lounges, and new technologies to make life more comfortable in the air and on the ground.
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