Which British Airways Planes Have Club Suites?

In mid-2019, British Airways introduced an all-new merchantry matriculation product, which represents a massive resurgence compared to the carrier’s previous product. As is often the specimen when airlines introduce new merchantry matriculation seats, the rencontre is unquestionably getting a plane featuring those seats.

While the airline had at the time outlined a rollout schedule for this new product, as you’d expect, the pandemic has elapsed things a bit. So in this post I wanted to take a squint at the current state of British Airways’ Club Suites rollout.

What are British Airways Club Suites?

Club Suites is the name of British Airways’ new merchantry matriculation product. This motel consists of reverse herringbone seats with doors — specifically, British Airways selected a modified version or the Collins Aerospace Super Diamond seat. This gives each passenger a fully unappetizing bed, uncontrived walkway access, and a privacy door.

This is an spanking-new product, among the weightier merchantry matriculation seats you’ll find out there. Read my review of British Airways Club Suites here.

While this is objectively a solid merchantry matriculation product, what makes it most heady is how much of an resurgence it is over British Airways’ old Club World merchantry class. British Airways’ previous merchantry matriculation product consisted of seven to eight seats per row (depending on the plane and layout), and was among the tightest merchantry matriculation products out there.

You can unchangingly tell if your flight is scheduled to full-length Club Suites based on the seatmap. If you’re flying a wide soul British Airways jet and the seatmap shows four seats per row in merchantry class, then your flight features Club Suites. Meanwhile if it shows increasingly seats per row than that, then it doesn’t full-length the new merchantry class.

Of undertow alimony in mind that last minute watercraft swaps can happen, expressly for routes operated by planes that don’t have full product consistency.

Which planes have British Airways Club Suites?

Back in 2019, British Airways spoken it planned to well-constructed its Club Suites installation by 2025. At the time the airline shared the unelevated graph well-nigh the rollout schedule.

As you’d expect, a lot has reverted since then — British Airways retired the 747, the Boeing 777-9 is elapsed until at least 2025, etc. So let’s take a squint at the current state of British Airways introducing Club Suites.

I should mention that whispered from routes operated by planes that exclusively have Club Suites, British Airways doesn’t really guarantee Club Suites on other routes. The exception is London (LHR) to New York (JFK), where the airline does unceasingly fly 777s with Club Suites.

All Airbus A350-1000s have Club Suites

All British Airways Airbus A350-1000s full-length Club Suites. This was the first plane to full-length Club Suites, and all planes have been delivered factory fresh with the new cabins. The airline has a total of 18 of these on order — 13 have been delivered so far, and we should see the remaining five join British Airways’ squadron in the next year or so.

All Boeing 787-10s have Club Suites

All British Airways Boeing 787-10s full-length Club Suites, as they were all delivered with these cabins. Whispered from the A350-1000, this is the only other plane to have 100% consistency when it comes to Club Suites. The airline has a total of 12 of these on order — five have been delivered so far, and you can expect the remaining planes to join the squadron in the next couple of years.

Most Boeing 777-200ERs have Club Suites

This is where it gets a little tricky. British Airways has 43 Boeing 777-200ERs — 28 of those are based at Heathrow Airport, while 15 of those are based at Gatwick Airport. British Airways doesn’t have plans to reconfigure the Gatwick jets unendingly soon, since they operate leisure oriented routes.

So far 25 of the 28 Heathrow based 777-200ERs have Club Suites. One plane is currently stuff reconfigured, so that ways only two Heathrow based 777-200ERs are in service with the old cabins. It’s expected that the remaining two jets will be reconfigured in the coming months. So the Heathrow 777-200ERs have a upper percentage of Club Suites, while the overall 777-200ER squadron has a lower percentage with Club Suites.

Most Boeing 777-300ERs have Club Suites

British Airways has 16 Boeing 777-300ERs, and 10 of those full-length Club Suites. It’s expected that the remaining planes will full-length the new cabins by some point in 2023.

No Boeing 787-8s have Club Suites

British Airways has 12 Boeing 787-8s, and none of them full-length Club Suites. It’s expected that retrofits on these planes will start in late 2023, though it could be 2025 surpassing all planes are reconfigured.

No Boeing 787-9s have Club Suites

British Airways has 18 Boeing 787-9s, and none of them full-length Club Suites. It’s expected that retrofits on these planes will start in late 2023, though it could be 2025 surpassing all planes are reconfigured.

No Airbus A380s have Club Suites

British Airways parked its Airbus A380 squadron at the start of the pandemic, and only recently brought these planes when to service. Currently there are no firm plans for these planes to be reconfigured with Club Suites.

What well-nigh first matriculation on planes with Club Suites?

This is a question that commonly comes up, so in the interest of stuff thorough, I figured I’d write it. For planes that have been reconfigured with Club Suites, what happened to the first matriculation seats?

• British Airways 777-200ERs have the same first matriculation seats as before, so it’s interesting that there are doors at the seats in merchantry class, but not in first class; the motel has been reduced in size from 14 seats to eight seats
• British Airways 777-300ERs have new first matriculation seats with doors, which represent a marginal improvement over the old product; the size of the motel has moreover been reduced from 14 seats to eight seats
• British Airways 787-10s have the same first matriculation seats that you’ll find on 787-9s
• Airbus A350-1000s don’t have a first matriculation cabin

Bottom line

British Airways has made good progress with rolling out its Club Suites merchantry matriculation product, though the airline is still quite a ways from offering this product consistently. Currently you’re guaranteed Club Suites on the A350-1000 and 787-10, you’ll most likely get Club Suites on the 777-200ER and 777-300ER, and you won’t get Club Suites on the 787-8, 787-9, and A380. In late 2023, 787-8s and 787-9s should start to get Club Suites.

If you are flying British Airways merchantry class, it’s definitely worth seeking out the new Club Suites product.

What’s your take on British Airways’ Club Suites rollout schedule?