BA Wet Leased A330. Air Belgium A330-900. Heathrow Departure as BA 295 to Chicago.

Due to increased demand and aircraft capacity issues, British Airways have wet leased a brand new A330 Neo from Air Belgium who will operate OO-ABG for BA, on the daily BA 295 to Chicago from 1st July 2023 until the end of the summer schedule in late October 2023.
Wet leasing the aircraft means that the aircraft and crew are provided by Air Belgium but the inflight amenities will be from British Airways.
According to "Simpleflying.com", the Air Belgium A330-900 is configured:
Business seating - 30
Premium Economy - 21
Economy- 235
whereas the 777-200 that it has replaced was generally configured:
First - 8
Business - 76
Premium Economy - 40
Economy - 132
This is not the first time BA have wet leased from Air Belgium. Back in 2018 they wet leased a pair of A340-300s, which operated on some of the Middle Eastern routes whilst the issues with the Rolls Royce Trent powerplant on their BA 787s were being investigated. You can see footage of my film of these A340s on my channel.

[@vc10aviation]

Great Catch

[@HeathrowAircraft]

@vc10aviation Thanks a lot. It was an hour late that day so I was beginning to think it wasn’t going to show up! 😩

[@paddykelly9641]

Beautiful ❤.

[@HeathrowAircraft]

@paddykelly9641 thanks a lot. It looks quite smart in that colour scheme doesn’t it?!

[@paddykelly9641]

Yes it does,love the 747's,we get very few of them at Dublin airport now 😢.

[@HeathrowAircraft]

@@paddykelly9641 ah - yes they are a rare find now aren’t they sadly 🥲

[@r12004rewy]

Bet that confused some of the passengers

[@HeathrowAircraft]

@r12004rewy 🤣 yes too right!!

[@stellabrooks9813]

A W E S O M E , excellent video and SOUND 👍👍👌🏼

[@HeathrowAircraft]

@stellabrooks9813 Hi Stella how are you? Thanks a lot!! Glad you liked it!! 👍✈️👏👏