Qantas 787

[Dennis McLean]

Delivery Dates for Aircraft 5 and 6 are:
VH-ZNE - 6 July 2018
VH-ZNF - 22 August 2018.

There is no date yet for either ZNG or ZNH, but H is due in 11/2018, so I guess G will come in September or October.

[Brian Noldt]

Parts are arriving for the assembly of the first QANTAS 787-9, VH-ZNA.

Delivery is listed as 12/10/2017.

[Greg Hyde]

Final assembly for first Qantas 787 about to commence

Final assembly of the first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for Qantas is about to begin after the aircraft’s major components arrived at Boeing’s Everett facility last week.
Qantas currently has eight 787-9s on order (11 787-8s are already in service with subsidiary Jetstar), with the first aircraft planned for delivery in mid-October.
Major components for that aircraft, comprising its nose, tail, fuselage and wings, arrived from their suppliers at Everett last week via Boeing’s 747-400LCF Dreamlifter aircraft ahead of final assembly commencing next Monday.

The final assembly process is expected to take 18 working days, with the aircraft planned to roll off the production line by the end of the month before entering the paint shop.

Typically the aircraft would then undertake two test flights with Boeing and then one or two customer acceptance flights ahead of formal handover to Qantas.

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...t-to-commence/

[Christopher Campbell]

Hopefully Qantas announces the on August 25 the next orders (the last 15 purchase options) For 6 in 2H FY19 and 9 in FY20.

This would bring the 787 fleet to 23 by the end of FY2020

This would then leave the last 30 orders being delivered from FY2021 to the end of FY2025. This would mean 6 deliveries per FY year bringing the total to 53 787s.

[Jacob L]

http://painefield.blogspot.com.au/20....html?spref=fb


First Tail shot of VH-ZNA at Paine Field

[MarkR]

Qantas ads are currently suggesting Canada will be served by a Dreamliner.

[Greg Hyde]

New pics of mated fuselage.

Qantas’s first 787-9 in final assembly

Qantas’s first Boeing 787-9 is now under final assembly ahead of its anticipated October delivery date.
A photo posted to Qantas’s Instagram account on Friday shows the fuselage joined to the nose and tail, while the wings were in the process of being attached at Boeing’s Everett facility.
Qantas said recently final assembly would begin on August 10 and take 18 working days to complete, with the aircraft due to roll off the production line by the end of August before entering the paintshop.
The major components for that aircraft, slated to have registration VH-ZNA, such as the nose, tail, fuselage and wings, arrived from their suppliers at Everett at the start of August.

Typically the aircraft would then undertake two test flights with Boeing and then one or two customer acceptance flights ahead of formal handover to Qantas.

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...inal-assembly/

[Christopher Campbell]

When should the routes for the second 4 of 787s be released?

[Dennis McLean]

Who knows???? You have to be in the "inner" circle to know. I have a friend who is an A.380 pilot and he does not know yet. However, OEB leaves in mid 2018 after the 4 week round the world tour and OJS,T,U are due to leave during the period when ZNE,F,G,H go into service so it is a guessing game. E is due in July, F in August, G in September and H in November. I suppose the other question is which routes will still have a 744ER by December 2018??

[MarkR]

Will be a while before any announcement with the new heads moving into their roles including Qantas International.