Anyone got any updates on BOAB? I had a visit to T5 the other day and they didn’t say anything about it although I forgot to ask.
Whilst T5 A & B are built there is planned to be a T5 C later on. Could it be that she will go there as per some of the original thoughts?

T5C is already half built. All the below apron substructure for T5C was built during the T5A and T5B construction.

T5C above apron is already designed and work on site will be starting in the near future. There isn’t enough space in T5A and B for all of BA’s heathrow operation, so the T5C programme has been brought forward.

I don’t think you’ll see BOAB anywhere near T5A,B or C, there is just not the space for it, BA don’t have enough space for their needs as it is without clogging it up with a redundant Concorde.

When I was on the T5 design team, just after BA announced it’s retirement, there was idle speculation that BOAB might get stripped out to a shell and get hung inside T5 from the roof beams above the check-in area. It would have fitted but the costs due to design changes and programme changes during construction put paid to that idea quite quickly from memory….:D