Unfortuantley , this is a problem with composite materials , they do not bubble when coroided like aluminium, but will delaminate ,If you look back , Concorde suffered with rudder lose on several occasions and this was down to the fact it was a composite rudder, BA started a comprhesive maintance schedule on it’s concorde rudders , but still suffered rudder lose , The only way to detect a problem with composite is to(NDT) Ultrasound the effected areas
I think there will be lots of problems like this on the 787 due to its fuslage being made from an all composite material

Kevin,

Do you mean classes or cabin sections?

If you mean classes, BA’s shorthaul aircraft all have Club Europe/Euro Traveller convertable seating in the front end of the cabin and straightforward Euro Traveller seating at the rear. European routes operate with a two class cabin using a flexible cabin divider which can be placed anywhere that there is convertable seating. Domestic routes operate with a one class cabin.

If you mean cabin sections the 757 has 3. From the front to the galley at the 2 doors are rows 2 to 9, from there to the toilets at the 3 doors are rows 11 to 24, and from there to the back are rows 26 to 34, with a total of 180 seats in an all economy config. The 321 really just has one big cabin, divided only by the flexible cabin divider and gaps where the 2 and 3 doors are, with a total of 195 seats in an all economy config.

I hope this answers what you were looking for, if not let me know.

1L.

Cheers 1L
certainly dose , I actually thought that the 321 carried less passengers than the 757,but there again with 3 Cabin section , I would guess that this would reduce the overall capacity

Kevin

Oneleft, Do you know how the A321 are configured,are they the same as the Eurpoean configedured 757s from Memory G-BPEE,(LHR-PRG),G-CPER(LHR-GLA) have have 3 Classes

Kevin

Still to be approved by the Unions and Staff, and can see fairly stormy weather for BA over this

Sun? When did I promise sun? 😀

Thanks, chaps. 🙂

Ok Promse that it will stay dry then 😀

with pictures like these, And Grey promising sun, 😀 I might just be tempted to sneek over the border

Grate shots

Kevin

Well i hope they have better luck this time with the atr , Last time It was never away from Glasgow due to Tech Problems , and Highland had to sub in J31 and short 360’s, but Im sure that they have some sort of connection to Air Atlantique,because , G-IONA , quickly sprouted the Osprey on it’s tail after arriving

I was allso down at PIK yesterday , waiting for the Dreamliner to move, and i waited , and waited and waited , and it never did ,but Air contractors C130 EI-JIV departed just after i reached the mound , the jags were in and out all day with the last “viking 2 departing about 15:30 ,dont know if he returned later on ,I will post some pictures later on after I have sorted them

Kevin