First QF B787
 

First QF B787 to be named Dreamtime

https://tenplay.com.au/news/national...ew-dreamliners

Great name but I still don't understand why QF are making such a big deal over the 787. It has been operating for 6 years now, maybe longer? Hundreds flying around the world but somehow QF is trying to market this plane as a game changer even though they have been slowly cutting great routes over the years

Wow, your just not a team player with your facts are you? (/sarc)


Correct, delivery of MSN number 6xx, way behind the curve. The greatest screw-up over the last 10 years has been the Asian experiment, and the A380 before that from which the balance sheet is only just beginning to heal. The B787 is a balance sheet game changer for QF. Everyone else moved on years ago...

Cheap advertising.

Isn't there already an aircraft named Uluru?

It is a game changer! So revolutionary it can't operate from T1 at Perth where all the other 787 operators fly from :E:E

So what? Milk it, PR, PR and PR

Just gettin it out there

Big fuss over 8 frames
JQ has 11
Enough said

The fanfare is a little bit embarrassing, I think the company Kool Aid bill must be astronomical! The fact that internationals low cost cousin has been operating the type for over 3 years and is even training all the intitial check captains seems to be lost in all the hooplah.

It's going to be interesting seeing a lone Qantas 787 at the Melbourne launch surrounded at the gate by Jetstar 787's...And ANZ , Brunei, United, Chinese Airlines, Air India....the list goes on.

I get the feeling some of us at the Q are suffering a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome!

Oh well, if it makes you feel better the Virgin group are eons away from getting one.

To be sure Qantas PR are on the cool aid, but most Airlines do make a bit of a carry on when they get a new Aircraft type, no matter were they are on the delivery schedule.

Everyone else has waken up long time ago and they are still dreaming. I have a 1:200 scale model of a 787 painted in Qantas livery sitting on my desc for at least 5 years. I often wondered if it ever going to materialise. Guess what.....I bought it straight from Boeing website 5 years ago. Wake up Mr Joyce.....

Why do any of you give a crap? If QF want to market an aircraft, and the public buy the hype, why shouldn't they?


Actually, please don't answer. I don't care.

The one guarantee in this forum is the cynical and pessimistic outlook from many of the posters.

:ok:

Anyone checked pavements limits for the B789? Currently 251100 for Perth and 238200 for Melbourne. MTOW B789 is 254011. Makes a very limiting sector even more so!

Quokka and Uluru ? So ...... a small rat-like creature and a large pink rock. How apropos. Alan must be tingling. This is as close as he's going to get, to having his name on a jet.

:E

Not in the big league Falling Leaf. That opportunity been and gone 7 years ago.

Watch that get fixed with the stroke of a pen.

So, are United payload-limited on the ex-MEL trans-Pacific flights? Or do they get a waiver on the basis of one flight only per day?