British Airways Starting A380 Flights To Vancouver In May 2016!

Cool! I love British Airways' A380s (I recently flew them from LHR to LAX in business class and made a Youtube clip about the experience: https://youtu.be/1zVh97nE6TE). Currently, BA has two B747 flights a day between Vancouver and London (summer schedule). Will they keep one B747 flight after they replace the other one with the A380? Maybe it is worth mentioning that the B747 business class on the upper deck (I also made a Youtube clip of that one) is superior to the one on the A380 because of being in your own small, semi-private cabin.

That is cool! While BA doesn't set the world alight with its First product, A380 First to Vancouver is a very positive move and one that helps differentiate this from existing services.

What's with the weirdness of that First redemption availability screenshot - some days showing available but with 0K. Haven't seen that before (although I rarely use the AA redemption engine so perhaps nothing unusual?).

But what's the all in cost dollar wise?

@Kieran says: some days showing available but with 0K

Yes, that's normal. AA.com does that all the time. Click it and you will see the availability.

@tjp74

Thanks for the explanation, thought I'd ask just in case AA were handing out "free" First award flights lol

Can a NYC->LHR award ticket be routed via YVR? it would be nice to do JFK-YVR on CX, and then YVR-LHR on BA all in F

@jan SHAMELESS promotion of your website/ youtube channel right there.

My wife and I will be trying to grab two seats in J for 125K Avios each next summer. I don't think the incremental cost of 60,000 off-peak Avios each for F is worth it. The "fees" total $1,231 each.

Funny that peak is 150K vs 200K, so the delta between the two is 'only' 50K Avios.

@lwunder Since that involves a fair bit of backtracking I'd imagine not. Haven't got a calculator handy, but probably breaks the 25M for New York-London.

My parents were booked on BA87 next spring, and have just received email notification that that flight is cancelled and they've been rebooked onto BA85. Excited for them!

@ Iwunder -- Nope, that would exceed the maximum permitted mileage. Here's a post which explains American's routing rules:
https://onemileatatime.com/how-to-use-american-airlines-miles/

@ Patrick -- Fuel surcharges are about $300-400 each way for first/business class.

@ Kieran -- The "0K" price is a well known glitch. It prices correctly on the booking page.

@Jan - I've heard the other service will be taken over by a 777.

@James - Maybe self promotion but super relevant to the post - no? I doubt it bothered anyone to see a video review of the product lucky is talking about along with some additional info. We get so picky about all this free content we get! 🙂

Ben,

So even though bookings show the 744 right now they will be changed to the 380 after May?

Scratch that. This link implies it is for summers only.

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/07/british-airways-to-fly-airbus-a380-for-vancouver-service/

We're booked on 84/85 in September and the seat plan is showing the 380 at the moment. Will be our first trip on the 380.

I've heard BA is looking for another 6 A380's! Wonder where they will go.

I was just in YVR a couple of weeks ago (evening of July 25) and there were TWO British Airways A380s parked on the apron--any idea why??