November 14, 2009 – 12:01 pm
All Nippon has revealed its new premium and economy cabins and given the quality end of the air travel spectrum a big jolt.
How about bidets in the bathrooms for the first and business class cabins? Which it claims as a world first. Will this cause Emirates to also install bidets in its twin shower/spa rooms [...]
There is no new schedule for flight testing of the Boeing Dreamliner following the postponement of the first flight due by 30 June because of the discovery in April of design deficiencies in the area where the wing joins either side of the fuselage of the high composite ‘plastic’ airliner.
Boeing issued this statement a short [...]
Flightblogger Jon Ostrower has posted an important update on the special Japan version of the Dreamliner, the 787-3.
This leaves Boeing, as of 7 June, with only a single customer for two of its passenger jet products, Lufthansa for the 747-8, the ultimate version of the Queen of the Skies, the 747, and All Nippon, the [...]
September 26, 2008 – 8:47 am
Boeing’s Dreamliner project set a new marker for fantasy overnight when launch customer All Nippon Airways said it had reached agreement to take delivery of the first of the plastic twin engined 300 passenger airliners next August.
The 787-8 prototype has yet to fly. It has a flight test schedule of nine months. It has to [...]