Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Boeing delivered 11 DreamLiner's in December















Photo Credits : Woody AeroImages

            Boeing Ended 2016 by Handing over 11 DreamLiners to the customers in December Month and achieved a Milestone of 500 DreamLiner Deliveries, The Fastest to reach 500 Deliveries among any wide body program in the Industry so far. A 787-8 handed over to Avianca in a ceremony at Everette marked the 500th DreamLiner delivery after the program has started in 2011.During this 5 years of time, Boeing Delivered 324 787-8's and 176 787-9's to around 40 Airlines. In 2016 Boeing handed over 137 Air frames to the customers in which 35 are of 787-8's and 102 of 787-9's. This again concludes the dominance and the popularity of 787-9 among the Airlines. Other watchable deliveries includes the last 787-8 for Royal Air maroc and the First 787-9 for Xiamen Airlines. Air Europa has received two 787-8's and British Airways received a 787-9. British airways wont take any 787-9 in 2017 and only a 787-8 will be delivered next year.

     About the DreamLiner orders in 2016, Boeing received 74 Gross orders for DreamLiners. Qatar's DreamLiner order for 30 is the most interesting one and came at the right time.Also the Love towards the Dreamlines from Chinese customers continued as couple of Chinese customers join the Dreamliner club by order 787-9's.


















Photo : Boeing

           By looking at Pictures posted by Boeing, The First 787-10 is coming in Great shape at Charleston facility. Wing-Body join process looks completed and soon the engines will be installed. Roll out should be in the month of February and the First flight may expect in March.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

10th DreamLiner 787-8 for Avianca

AirLine Operator         Avianca
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            21-12-2016

Monday, December 19, 2016

5th DreamLiner 787-8 for Air Europa

AirLine Operator         Air Europa
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            19-12-2016

Thursday, December 15, 2016

4th DreamLiner 787-9 for American

AirLine Operator         American
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            15-12-2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

4th DreamLiner 787-8 for Air Europa

AirLine Operator         Air Europa
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            14-12-2016

Friday, December 9, 2016

21st DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            09-12-2016

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

16th DreamLiner 787-9 for British Airways

AirLine Operator         British Airways
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            07-12-2016

1st DreamLiner 787-9 fro Xiamen Airlines

AirLine Operator         Xiamen Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            07-12-2016

8th DreamLiner 787-9 for Hainan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Hainan Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            07-12-2016

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

3rd DreamLiner 787-9 for Air Mexico

AirLine Operator         Air Mexico
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            06-12-2016

Friday, December 2, 2016

5th DreamLiner 787-8 for Royal Air Maroc

AirLine Operator         Royal Air Maroc
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            02-12-2016

6th DreamLiner 787-9 for Japan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Japa Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            2-12-2016

Boeing Delivered 9 DreamLiners in November

                      9 Air frames have been delivered to the Airlines in the month of November of which 3 are 787-8's and rest are of 787-9's.Air France took its Maiden DreamLiner 787-9 out of 14 on order. It's first international destination would be Cairo as per the Airline statement. Other notable deliveries include Air India, National Flag Carrier of India received its DreamLiner 787-8 which is first of its 2nd batch of DreamLiners on Order.Its 2 years since Air India last received a DreamLiner. Also Royal Jordanian Flew a 787-8 after 2 years since it received the last one in 2014.Another 787-8 DreamLiner destined for Uzbekistan Airlines, The last one of its DreamLiner order. But the Airline announced during the Handover ceremony that it will order Three 787-9's to complement its 787-8 fleet. The order is yet to Finalize by Boeing.

Aero Mexico               1
Air India                     1 
Air France                  1
ANA                          2
Hainan Airlines           1
Royal Jordanian          1
Vietnam Airlines          1
Uzbekistan Airlines      1

Juneyao Airlines MOU for 10 DreamLiners:

                     Another Chinese Carrier Joined the DreamLiner operator Club. Juneyao Airlines, A shangai based Airline is inked a MOU for Ten 787-9 DreamLiners comprised Five 787-9's and another Five Options.Airline will use these wide bodies to spread its International Network.

Boeing 787-10 Ready for Final Assembly :

            Finally the things Moving out Faster as the Biggest DreamLiner 787-10 is getting ready for its Final Assembly in North Carolina,SC. As per Boeing the Aft and Mid body sections are arrived at facility and is waiting for Forward Fuselage to be delivered from Spirit Aero Systems.As per ALL THINGS 787 website, 787-10 will be loaded into Final assembly Nearly around Dec 5th or 6th. First flight may expect as early as First Quarter of 2017. Nearly After a Year, First 787-10 will be delivered to Launch Customer Singapore Airlines. 

Thursday, December 1, 2016

1st DreamLiner 787-9 for Air France

AirLine Operator         Air France
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            30-11-2016

Thursday, November 24, 2016

10th DreamLiner 787-9 for Vietnam Airlines

AirLine Operator         Vietnam Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            24-11-2016

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

20th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            22-11-2016

Monday, November 21, 2016

2nd DreamLiner 787-9 for Air Mexico

AirLine Operator         Air Mexico
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            21-11-2016

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

6th DreamLiner 787-8 for Royal Jordanian

AirLine Operator         Royal Jordanian
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            16-11-2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016

7th DreamLiner 787-9 for Hainan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Hainan Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            12-11-2016

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

22nd DreamLiner 787-8 for Air India

AirLine Operator         Air India
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            08-11-2016

Monday, November 7, 2016

19th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            07-11-2016

Friday, November 4, 2016

2nd DreamLiner 787-8 for Uzbekistan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Uzbekistan Airlinesl
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            04-11-2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Boeing Delivered 13 DreamLiners in October

                 Boeing Delivered 13 Air frames in October. Two of them are 787-8's and eleven of them are 787-9's. Most notable delivery was of Air Austral which flown its 787-8,Another Terrible teen.Apart from it ANA,Vietnam Airlines and American Airlines received two 787-9's each. Aero Mexico received its First 787-9 which was holding special livery depicting Mexico heritage and named it as "Quetzalcoatl". It has another five 787-9's on order.

AeroMexico                 1
Air Austral                   1
Air China                     1
Air Europa                   1
Air Newzealand           1
American                    2
ANA                           2
Etihad                         1
Nowegian Air               1
Vietnam Airlines          2

787-10 update : During latest quarter results, Boeing CEO announced that 787-10 mid body received at its South Carolina plant and mid body integration for Longest DreamLiner jet is under way. Final assembly might start in coming month and soon it will be in air Early Next year.

Flurry of Boeing wide body orders :

                  Finally there is an order inflow for Boeing wide bodies as Qatar Airways and China Southern Airlines announced its orders.

The long anticipated order from Qatar Airways, Exercising its 30 DreamLiner options was announced in a special ceremony. Along with it Qatar airways announced order for ten 777's and LOI for up to 60  single aisle 737 max 8's.Delivery slots for DreamLiner was not announced but they may receive 777's probably from next year. Not sure when their Max order will get Firmed up.

China Southern Airlines has ordered a dozen DreamLiner 787-9's. They already had ten 787-8's in service. Expected delivery of these DreamLiner's will be from 2018.                  

Friday, October 28, 2016

2nd DreamLiner 787-8 for Air Austral

AirLine Operator         Air Austral
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            28-10-2016

Thursday, October 27, 2016

7th DreamLiner 787-9 for Air China

AirLine Operator         Air China
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            27-10-2016

3rd DreamLiner 787-9 for American

AirLine Operator         American
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            27-10-2016

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

18th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            25-10-2016

Friday, October 21, 2016

3rd DreamLiner 787-8 for Air Europa

AirLine Operator         Air Europa
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            21-10-2016

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

4th DreamLiner 787-9 for Norwegian Air

AirLine Operator         Norwegian Air
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            19-10-2016

Saturday, October 15, 2016

10th DreamLiner 787-9 for Etihad Airways

AirLine Operator         Etihad Airways
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            15-10-2016

9th DreamLiner 787-9 for Vietnam Airlines

AirLine Operator         Vietnam Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            14-10-2016

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

9th DreamLiner 787-9 for Air NewZealand

AirLine Operator         Air NewZealand
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            12-10-2016

1st DreamLiner 787-9 for Air Mexico

AirLine Operator         Air Mexico
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            12-10-2016

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

2nd DreamLiner 787-9 for American

AirLine Operator         American
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            05-10-2016

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

8th DreamLiner 787-9 for Vietnam Airlines

AirLine Operator         Vietnam Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            04-10-2016

Monday, October 3, 2016

17th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            03-10-2016

Boeing Delivered 12 DreamLiners in September

               Boeing & Co Delivered 12 DreamLiners in September and that tells that they are back at usual Delivery pace after they Delivered only 9 last month. ANA,Hainan and British Airways took 2 air frames each this month and one more Terrible teen Delivered to Ethiopian, The last one for this Year.

              Ten 787-9's & only two 787-8's are in the split up for this month. KLM took its Dreamliner and i suppose its 150th  787-9 being Delivered. It took 2 years to reach this milestone and it depicts how successful this stretch is. Finally the Delivery of 787-9 model for American Airlines started and the Airliners tooks it First one this month.

Air China                               1
Air NewZealand                     1
American Airlines                   1
ANA                                      2
Avianca                                 1
British Airways                       2
Ethiopian Airlines                    1
Hainan Airlines                       2
KLM                                      1

A bit surge in DreamLiner orders Finally

                    So far this year, Boeing only managed to record 19 orders for DreamLiner and it looks all of them are for 787-9. Its been a bit Dry period but could see some news about anticipated orders.

                  The most anticipated order was from Qatar airways to exercise its 30 DreamLiner orders. It was expected at this years Farnborough Airshow but not seen. it looks they just hung up for US to approve its Fighter sale and its done on last week. Few weeks before Qatar airways chief Al-Baker said he will soon put up a wide body jet order and Last week Bloomberg reported that Boeing in talks with Qatar for the same. Hopefully its a mix of 787's and 777's. So expecting an order for 787-10's and few 777-300 ER's.
                   Another surprise comes as part of another Middle East customer Saudia. It committed for an order of 63 aircraft's including 13 787's. Not sure of what type but could guess probably its for 787-9 to grow its DreamLiner fleet. I am not expecting this order for 787-10's as they already have enough A-330's on order book.  

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

15th DreamLiner 787-9 for British Airways

AirLine Operator         British Airways
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            27-09-2016

Sunday, September 25, 2016

6th DreamLiner 787-9 for Hainan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Hainan Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            25-09-2016

Friday, September 23, 2016

8th DreamLiner 787-9 for KLM

AirLine Operator         KLM
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            23-09-2016

9th DreamLiner 787-8 for Avianca

AirLine Operator         Avianca
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            23-09-2016

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

16th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            21-09-2016

Saturday, September 17, 2016

16th DreamLiner 787-8 for Ethiopian Airlines

AirLine Operator         Ethiopian Airlines
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            17-09-2016

Thursday, September 15, 2016

6th DreamLiner 787-9 for Air China

AirLine Operator         AIr China
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            15-09-2016

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

1st Dreamliner 787-9 for American

AirLine Operator         American
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            13-09-2016

Sunday, September 11, 2016

5th DreamLiner 787-9 for Hainan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Hainan Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            11-09-2016

Saturday, September 10, 2016

8th DreamLiner 787-9 for Air Newzealand

AirLine Operator         Air Newzealand
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            10-09-2016


Thursday, September 8, 2016

14th DreamLiner 787-9 for British Airways

AirLine Operator         British Airways
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            08-09-2016

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

15th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            06-09-2016

Friday, September 2, 2016

Boeing Delivered 9 DreamLiners in August

                Boeing Delivered 9 Air frames in the month of August. Three 787-8's and Six 787-9's are among the Deliveries. Like last month, Royal Air Maroc driven its Dreamliner home The First one for the month.Most notable Deliveries included the Launch Operator ANA received it 50th DreamLiner overall and became the First operator to do so.Leaving it another 33 to join its fleet in the coming Years. 


             Another Important one was about Uzbekistan Airlines. It has received it first DreamLiner, A 787-8 which was part of its Order of 2 in way back 2007. Its the First carrier to Order Dreamliner in Central Asia and one more is coming to Delivery by Year End.

                Finally the long awaited Delivery for British Airways, A Dreamliner 787-9 sitting in storage for months due to seat issues at its supplier Zodiac got the wings and flew to its home LHR. 

Air China                       1
ANA                             1
Avianca                        1
British Airways              1
Hainan Airlines              1
KLM                             1
Royal Air Maroc             1
Uzbekistan Airways       1

ANA hit by Engine Issues 
                  World largest Dreamliner fleet was hit by its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines as its found issue with its Engine's Carbon fiber blades. Since the Beginning of the year, ANA grounded 3 DreamLiners and found the bent and corrosion of Engine Fan blades. It decided to replace all its 100 Trent Engines but later confirmed that only doing the replacement of Fan Blades. Already Manufacturer Rolls-Royce working on New Fan Blade type and its only available beginning of Next year Hopefully.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

6th DreamLiner 787-8 for Scoot

AirLine Operator         Scoot
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            01-09-2016

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

13th DreamLiner 787-9 for British Airways

AirLine Operator         British Airways
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            30-08-2016

1st DreamLiner 787-8 for Uzbekistan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Uzbekistan Airlines
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            30-08-2016


Pic Credits : Woody AeroImages

Saturday, August 27, 2016

5th DreamLiner 787-9 for Air China

AirLine Operator         Air China
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            27-08-2016

Friday, August 26, 2016

7th DreamLiner 787-9 for KLM

AirLine Operator         KLM
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            26-08-2016

Saturday, August 20, 2016

4th DreamLiner 787-9 for Hainan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Hainan Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            19-08-2016

Friday, August 19, 2016

ANA Received it 50th DreamLiner

                ANA,The leading airline of Japan and the Boeing airplanes celebrated 50th DreamLiner delivery to the Airline on 17th August 2016 by Marking another milestone for Boeing 787 DreamLiner program. Nearly five years back ANA took its First DreaLliner, A 787-8 which was the first of Initial order for 50 DreamLiners. So far ANA clocked 0.3 million Flight hours and flown over 20 million passengers. After receiving 50th DreamLiner it still having another 33 to come including the 787-10's which will accomplish the complete DreamLiner fleet of ANA.



PIC Credits : Woody AeroImages



                   Fortunately 50th one is a 787-9 which was on Aerial and static display on Last month Concluded Farnborough Airshow. A decal printed as 50th DreamLiner on its front Fuselage and its handed over to ANA on a ceremony in Everette delivery center.


                   Way back in 2004, When ANA worked with Boeing on 787 design requirements and placed an order for 50 DreamLiners as initial order and became the Launch Customer.it received its first 787-8 in September 2011 though they have to ground their entire DreamLiner fleet due to issues with Lithium-ion battery's after an year of Operations. When the Early problems with DreamLiners sorted out , ANA effectively utilized the DreamLiners in its Medium to Long haul operations and expanded its International Network by opening Some Thin Long haul routes using DreamLiners. As per ANA statement, Due to efficiency of DreamLiners its almost saving nearly 98$ millions per year in its Operations.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

5th Dreamliner 787-9 for Japan Airlines

AirLine Operator         Japan Airlines
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            18-08-2016

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

14th DreamLiner 787-9 for ANA

AirLine Operator         ANA
787 Type                   787-9
Delivery Date            17-08-2016

Friday, August 12, 2016

8th DreamLiner 787-8 for Avianca

AirLine Operator         Avianca
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            12-08-2016

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

4th DreamLiner 787-8 for Royal Air Maroc

AirLine Operator         Royal Air Maroc
787 Type                   787-8
Delivery Date            01-08-2016

Saturday, July 30, 2016

14 DreamLiners Delivered in July

                         Boeing Delivered 14 Air frames in the month of July. Only 3 787-8's delivered along with 11 787-9's from both Everette and Charleston Production plants.Most notable deliveries among them was the last 787-8 for Qatar Airways.It completed its order of 30 Dreamliners but still have 30 in options. There is no word on the options to exercise it yet.
                         Royal Air Maroc has taken its first 787-8 this year . ANA,Hainan Airlines, British Airways and Etihad Airways received 2 787-9's each.  ANA 787-9 which was participated in Farnborough Airshow as Flying display also Delivered to the Carrier. Air Newzealand has taken its First 787-9 this year .Lastly Ethiopian Airlines tooks its 2nd "Terrible Teen" to its base. Below is the split up of Deliveries against Airlines.

Air China                      1
Air Newzealand             1
ANA                             2
British Airways              2
Ethiopian Airlines           1
Etihad Airways              2
Hainan Airlines              2
Norwegian Air                1
Qatar Airways                1
Royal Air Maroc             1