Air Canada will expand use of its new Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet from Vancouver International Airport in early 2015, introducing the type on its routes to Beijing and Seoul from the British Columbia city.
Read moreAccording to Ethiopian Airlines, its flights will represent the only direct service connecting Africa with Ireland and the West Coast of the United States. Similarly, the flights will be the only non-stop service between Dublin and Los Angeles, the airline says.
Read moreThe airline is the first European carrier to take delivery of a Boeing 787-9 and plans to operate the aircraft initially on its London Heathrow-Boston route.
Read moreAlthough it is the third customer overall to take delivery of a Boeing 787-9, Air New Zealand and Japan’s All Nippon Airways being the first two, United Airlines will become the first carrier in North America to operate both the 787-8 and 787-9.
Read moreThe aircraft will play a central role in the Amman-based airline’s strategic plan for fleet modernization, according to Boeing. Royal Jordanian Airlines has acquired the 787-8 through leasing company AerCap.
Read moreWith this delivery, ANA now has 29 Boeing 787 jets in its fleet, more than any other operator in the world. ANA has 29 more 787-9s on order and holds commitments for 14 more.
Read moreLeasing companies dominated Boeing’s order announcements on the second day of the Farnborough International Airshow 2014, three lessors accounting for all of the firm orders Boeing announced during the day.
Read moreThe manufacturer said that, when the deal was finalized, the commitment would mark Avolon’s first order for the Boeing 787 and would increase the lessor’s leasing portfolio of Boeing 737 MAX jets to 20 aircraft.
Read moreOn June 9, United Airlines begins non-stop, three-times-weekly services between San Francisco and Chengdu, China’s fourth-largest city. In doing so, United Airlines becomes the first carrier to serve Chengdu.
Read moreArke’s first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner landed at the Dutch leisure carrier’s base at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on June 5.
Read moreBased at Milan Malpensa Airport in northern Italy, Neos will become Italy’s first Boeing 787 operator when it takes delivery of two leased 787-8s from ILFC in 2018.
Read moreAeroMexico says replacing 767-200ERs with 787-8s on its three weekly round-trips between Mexico City’s Aeropuerto Benito Juárez Internacional and London Heathrow Airport from April onwards will make it better equipped to satisfy increasing customer demand from the UK to Mexico.
Read moreThe roll-out marks the first major milestone in the aircraft’s production ahead of its expected delivery to United Airlines this summer. The Boeing 787-9 is the second member of the 787 Dreamliner family.
Read moreBoeing has rolled out of the Everett paint hangar the first 787-9 Dreamliner for delivery to launch customer Air New Zealand, revealing the carrier’s new-look livery. The Boeing 787-9, painted in a distinctive black color scheme, features the official New Zealand Fern Mark.
Read moreThe first Boeing 787-8 for the Kenyan flag-carrier departed Paine Field in Everett, where most of Boeing’s widebody final assembly lines are located, on April 4 for a 7,800-nautical mile non-stop flight to the airline’s home base at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Read moreAll Nippon Airways’ parent company ANA Holdings is placing firm orders on the airline’s behalf for 70 new aircraft from Boeing and Airbus, Boeing emerging with the bulk of the business in terms of both aircraft numbers and dollar value.
Read moreUnited Airlines plans to fly six round-trips a week on the route, using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. United is the North American launch customer for the Boeing 787-9 and this will be its first international deployment of the type.
Read moreThe flight marks the 787-9’s international debut and its longest flight since the Boeing 787-9 flight-test program began.
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