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It may have been three years late in arriving at All Nippon Airway’s aircraft hangar in Tokyo, but the Dreamliner’s maiden commercial flight from Japan to Hong Kong on Wednesday arrived bang on time. Paying passengers could for the first time enjoy the highly praised technical innovations of the new generation of Boeing plane, with its more fuel-efficient engines, improved cabin pressurization (meaning passengers should feel less groggy at the… Read More

It’s been a long time coming but Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Jim Albaugh has finally handed over the keys (actually it was one really big key) of the company’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jet to president and CEO of All Nippon Airways, Shinichiro Ito. The ceremony took place on Sunday at a rainy Paine Field airport in Everett, Washington. The first of the ANA’s 55 Dreamliners will land at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on… Read More