Best seat on a Britannia 757

Originally posted by wysiwyg
Oh I see what you mean Sandy. It could well be a mix of system routing and fuselage strengthening due to it being immediately adjacent to the wing attachments.

Ah, fuse strengthening… hadn’t thought of that.
Thanx

Oh I see what you mean Sandy. It could well be a mix of system routing and fuselage strengthening due to it being immediately adjacent to the wing attachments.

Going by that seating plan, I was on the equvalent of 12A when I flew Monarch in May last year. Right by the door with legroom galore.:D

and a real pic to show that my illustration ain’t wrong

Oh I know about the blanke windows

I mean the gap in the window line.

Her eit is illustrated. Its a built in gap that features on ALL 757s, bar freighters. It looks like 2 windows have been taken out. One either side of that “orphan” window

You could be right however I think it’s probably more likely to be down to the fact that BA 757’s have a galley in that location which the charter operators don’t have.

Originally posted by Bhoy
I was in the row beside the wing service door on a BA shuttle down to Heathrow once (row 32 on this diagram). Plenty of leg space, although there was a Steward on a jumpseat opposite. BA don’t have toilets there, anyway, they have a small galley. The midaircraft toilets on BA 75’s are behind the second set of main doors, near the wing root.

Yeah, if you look at photos of a BA 757, you’ll see that 2 windows immediately behind L2 and R2 are blanked off. Leaving just 3 “usable” windows before the gap for the airconditioning ducts.

Wys, that Gap in the windows, it is to facilitate Air ducts right? I think I read that in a tech manual somewhere.

Originally posted by wysiwyg
Sorry if I sound incredibly picky but the doors just aft of the wing (L3 & R3) are not service doors but purely emergency exits and are permanently armed. The service doors are R1, R2 & R4 while the entry doors are L1, L2 & L4.

I stand corrected. Thanx 🙂

Another bit of correct info for my 757 database.

Originally posted by Bmused55
…a smaller service door aft of the wing (doubles as emergency exit)…

Sorry if I sound incredibly picky but the doors just aft of the wing (L3 & R3) are not service doors but purely emergency exits and are permanently armed. The service doors are R1, R2 & R4 while the entry doors are L1, L2 & L4.

When I flew back from TRN-STN in December 2003, I had seat 2A, loads of leg room and just behind the front left door, and I had no seat in front of me, best seat I have ever had on a charter flight.

Originally posted by MINIDOH
I sat on a Britannia 757 not long ago, had the worst seats possible. Dont get the ones which are opposite the toilets in the middle. They have smaller legroom than all the other seats, dont know why! They also get the smells from the toilets. My dad had to move seats because he wouldnt fit in, and hes only 6 feet tall!

That cannot be possible. Britannia offer just 28 inches of seat pitch to economy passengers. 28 inches is the smallest pitch permitted in the UK. Some seats having less than this would not be allowed.

Sitting next to the wing for me is cool, you get to see the wing movements!

I was in the row beside the wing service door on a BA shuttle down to Heathrow once (row 32 on this diagram). Plenty of leg space, although there was a Steward on a jumpseat opposite. BA don’t have toilets there, anyway, they have a small galley. The midaircraft toilets on BA 75’s are behind the second set of main doors, near the wing root.

and here the 3 door.

This is the version Steve is on about, theose 2 “hatches” above the wing provide the best seating mid cabin.

Just to illustrate, here’s a 4 door version

Originally posted by steve rowell
The best seat on any Airliner if your travelling economy class is the the seat by the emergency exit.
There is a row of seats missing so you get as much leg room as first class, the only downside is that it’s over the wing so you don’t get much of a view

Providing of course the aircraft you fly has these.

Britannia operate the 8 door version of the 757. So on one side of the aircraft you have: 2 doors forward of the wing, a smaller service door aft of the wing (doubles as emergency exit) then another service door at the rear of the cabin.

This is the most popular door layout, 90% of all 757’s in europe use this.

The best seat on any Airliner if your travelling economy class is the the seat by the emergency exit.
There is a row of seats missing so you get as much leg room as first class, the only downside is that it’s over the wing so you don’t get much of a view

Re: Best seat on a Britannia 757

Originally posted by wilag
Cool, looking forward to it, and also as we are landing at Tououlse might just get to see some new airbus stuff.
How old are the Britannia 757’s mut be getting on abit now, any idea what the replacements are going to be now that the 757 is at the end of it’s production run?

They’re not all that old. And certainly no where near replacement age.

Best seat on a Britannia 757

Cool, looking forward to it, and also as we are landing at Tououlse might just get to see some new airbus stuff.
How old are the Britannia 757’s mut be getting on abit now, any idea what the replacements are going to be now that the 757 is at the end of it’s production run?

Re: Best seat on a Britannia 757

Originally posted by wilag are they good on take off and that?

Oh yeeeeeah!

You can’t beat an RB211-535E4 powered 752 on takeoff.