British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) is considering replacing its fleet of fifty B747-400s with B777Xs, IAG's CEO Willie Walsh has disclosed. The airline's B747s currently see service to North America, the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, India and Brazil. “We’re looking at the aircraft and we’re certainly interested,” he told Bloomberg newswire. “We see aircraft like the A350-1000 and B777X as being natural replacement aircraft for the 747s that we have,” Walsh said. Mr Walsh added that no commitment to Boeing (BOE, Washington National) has yet been made, but noted that any order placed would be for jets to be delivered from 2019 onwards. British Airways also operates forty-six B777-200(ER)s, fourteen B777-300ERs of which five are on order, and has orders for eighteen A350-1000s.