UPDATE: I have just got confirmation that both JA822J and JA825J will be formally delivered to Japan Airlines on Sunday, March 25. I still don't know if fly away will occur for both the next day or not and I'm still not sure if Boeing is delivering JA806A on the same day.
Japan Airlines is preparing to take ownership of its first and possibly second 787 this weekend. I'm still trying to find out but ZA177 (JA822J, L/N 23) and ZA179 (JA825J, L/N 33) are supposed to be delivered this month with at least one to be delivered this Sunday (March 25) and possibly both being delivered on the same day. Fly away is scheduled for Monday March 26th at 4PM local time. It does seem certain that both ZA177 and ZA179 will be delivered this month.
According to sources, JA806A (ZA117, L/N 40) for ANA is scheduled to be delivered on March 25th as well. It would be an unusual delivery day for Boeing with the company delivering 787s to two customers that are competitors. This is not yet final though and I am trying to confirm. This airplane should also be delivered in March nonetheless.
For April, Boeing is planning to deliver 3 more 787s also all to ANA and JAL. ANA is tentatively scheduled to receive ZA105 (JA808A, L/N 42) around April 17th. Boeing has pulled out two more 787s to the Everett flightline, JA826J (ZA180, L/N 37) and JA827J (ZA181, L/N 38). Both are tentatively scheduled to be delivered to Japan Airlines but the date is uncertain. Again all this is tentative.
One observation which is unsurprising is that most of these airplanes are late build 787s (L/N 33 and higher). Boeing is expecting to work on the early builds and deliver them from now until early 2014. Boeing's first delivery to Air India is also a late build airplane, VT-ANH (ZA236, L/N 35). This airplane was flown to San Antonio for unknown reason though I suspect it is to probably do some last minute work. This airplane should deliver in May. Going forward into the summer we should start seeing deliveries made to Qatar in addition ot AI, JAL and ANA. United will come later in the fall as will LAN, Ethiopian and China Southern.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Hey Uresh,
Tanks for the update. Would be nice to see 3 other 787 entering service.
Question tough, on http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2012/03/japan-airlines-readies-for-787.html
it says:
On March 1, Boeing began receiving structural shipments at the Everett factory's Position 0 at a rate of 3.5 aircraft per month for pre-integration and Postion 1 followed to the higher rate as well with the recent loading of Airplane 61, LOT's first 787, for final body join.
Do you know more? because on your spreadsheet is not showing. And since this article is 7 days old it nearly means an line move must been made since then.
Thanks,
Joost
I'm still trying to find out which line numbers are in final assembly.
Not sure if 806A is going to be delivered yet. Matt Cawby reports that both ANA 787s are having engine changes done on the flightline...
Flights JAL8102 and JAL8101 on their way to Haneda and Narita respectively. Departed KPAE at 16:32 and 17:43 on 3/26
Looks like ANA accepted ZA117/JA806A, flight ANA 9397 is on the way to Haneda on 3/29.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ANA9397
News story (in Japanese) at http://flyteam.jp/news/article/8828
Yes I showed it delivered on my spreadsheets. See below.
This is unrelated, but perhaps you know...
I often enter the B788 aircraft type into Flightaware to see what 787's are flying - and often see the ANA flights to/from Frankfurt, Boeing flights and even the JAL delivery flights. But, I never see flights with the first 2 ANA delivered aircraft which - as a recall - were configured for domestic use.
Do you know why?
thanks in advance...
That is because flightaware has those flights as being a320. If you use the flightradar24 you can see them. Also on the FRA route it sometimes shows 2 787 that actually is 1 777 and 1 787. (well soon in will be to since they now have a new 787)
grt
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