BRITISH AIRWAYS RETIRES LAST B767

NEARLY 30 YEARS AFTER IT TOOK DELIVERY of its first Boeing B767, BA has retired the last of the aircraft. The final flight was between Heathrow and Larnaca in Cyprus.

The first of British Airways’ 28 B767s joined the fleet in 1990, having been selected over rival Airbus’s A300-600. They were used on routes to Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. The B767s completed more than 425,000 commercial flights, initially in a long-haul configuration and latterly for short-haul services such as Frankfurt and Larnaca as well as on some domestic routes.

BA’s final B767 commercial flight took place on aircraft G-BZHA, which first flew in 1998 and has covered about 23 million miles. It visited Larnaca 900 times in its life but its most popular route was Athens, for which it completed 1,275 round trips. BA estimates that this particular aircraft has carried about four million customers across nearly 23,000 flights. ba.com