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Look for more United 787s on transpacific routes from California next year. (Image: United)
United has announced that it will be shifting most of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet from Houston to its West Coast hubs at San Francisco International and Los Angeles starting in Spring 2016.
When the redeployment is complete, it will fly the 787-9 on routes between SFO and Sydney, Taipei and Tokyo Haneda. In addition, it will fly SFO-Seoul with a 787-9 between Aug. 1 and Oct. 21, 2016.
From LAX it will fly new Dreamliners to Melbourne (Australia), Tokyo Narita, Shanghai, Sydney and London Heathrow.
The Houston routes that it previously flew with the 787-9 will be replaced with Boeing 767s and Boeing 777s, and the 777s displaced from LAX and SFO will be re-assigned primarily to Newark, Chicago O’Hare and Washington Dulles.
Hainan Air arrives at SJC with 787 nonstops to Beijing (Photo: SJC)
Have you inhaled that new airplane smell on your own first Dreamliner flight yet? Frequent flyers who want to experience Boeing’s newest widebody will find their best odds at the mega-gateways of Los Angeles and New York — but the Bay Area isn’t far behind.
The website Airlineroute.net recently compiled a handy listing of every route worldwide where the 787 is now flying, or is about to start flying soon. By our count, it includes 16 routes out of New York (JFK and Newark) and 16 out of Los Angeles International, with the Bay Area (San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose) currently in third place among U.S. gateways with nine (not counting United’s plans mentioned above).
At SFO, United is currently using Dreamliners across the Pacific to Osaka, Japan and Chengdu, China; China Southern has 787 flights to Guangzhou; and Virgin Atlantic is poised to begin SFO-London Heathrow flights with a new 787-9 beginning October 24.
European budget carrier Norwegian has started flying Dreamliners from Oakland to both Oslo and Stockholm. And at San Jose, Dreamliners are available on flights to Tokyo Narita with ANA; to Beijing with Hainan Airlines; and soon to London Heathrow with a new British Airways 787-9.
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Ryan says
September 1, 2015 at 8:48 amthanks. I intended to write “intra-continental”
Kirk says
September 1, 2015 at 7:51 amall the Dreamliner routes are inter-continental
Ryan says
September 1, 2015 at 6:59 amany inter-contentinal Dreamliner routes?
Brad says
August 31, 2015 at 10:17 pmNorwegian at OAK is still a bizarre decision to me.
Salvatore Johnson says
August 31, 2015 at 5:39 pmI guess that for us that fly United and live in Washington D.C. we will never get to fly the 787.