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British Airways is currently wet leasing an Airbus A340 aircraft from Air Belgium to cover the London Heathrow – Cairo route.
This was due to end on Thursday 31 October 2019 for the outbound flight from London Heathrow (flight BA155) and Friday 1 November 2019 for the inbound flight to London Heathrow (flight BA154).
The Air Belgium wet lease has now been extended to Wednesday 6 November 2019 and Thursday 7 November 2019 respectively.
Due to ongoing maintenance requirements to the Rolls-Royce engines of BA’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet, BA will then wet lease an Airbus A321-200 aircraft from Titan Airways to cover this route.
Titan Airways will operate flight BA155 from Thursday 7 November 2019 to Wednesday 12 January 2020 and BA154 from Friday 8 November 2019 to Thursday 13 January 2020.
Given it has, much to the frustration of BA, taken longer than expected to address the issues with the Boeing 787 fleet, there is every possibility that the wet lease may be extended.
Club World Passengers
The Titan Airways Airbus A321-200 aircraft has two cabins which, for BA, will operate as economy and premium economy.
There is no equivalent cabin to Club World on this aircraft and Club World passengers will be downgraded to premium economy, with an appropriate refund of their fare.
Club World passengers will retain their original baggage allowance, lounge access privileges and Avios/tier points earning entitlements. Club World passengers are also entitled to cancel their flights with a full refund.
Titan Airways has recently refurbished its fleet of Airbus A321 aircraft and you can see pictures of the interiors from Titan Airways. From the pictures available, there appears to be no seat-back in-flight entertainment system on this aircraft.
Affected passengers can check the status of their booking using the Manage My Booking tool and should contact either BA or their travel agent.
I was on that flight from Cairo to London and return. I feel very done by BA. They sold me a Premier Economy ticket for nearly 500 stg but I certainly didn’t get what I paid for. Titan were very basic, the food wasn’t up to standard, the staff were nice but hardly saw them. No bag on arrival with headphones, blankets on the seat and small pillows. What I was most annoyed about was NO in flight entertainment. What reaction does BA expect to get when it’s obvious they have sold out their passengers. Because of this unfairness the seat prices should be less. It’s BA, s decision to lease. This has turned me off traveling with BA. I have always flown with them, premier economy but no more 😔