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787 appearing on LHR-TLV, Winter 2015/16 season

787 appearing on LHR-TLV, Winter 2015/16 season

Old May 23, 2015, 7:31 am
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787 appearing on LHR-TLV, Winter 2015/16 season

Anyone heard about this? Is it a one off, or scheduled?

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Old May 23, 2015, 7:39 am
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Makes sense. Historically 767s served TLV and 787s are the natural replacement for those. Fills the capacity gap between A321 and 772.
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Old May 23, 2015, 7:43 am
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Nice catch!
Had a play around on Expertflyer - looks like they are appearing late October from what I can see - replacing the 777 flight daily on most days of the week (not all).

That will make a nice change on the route. A shame that the A321's aren't being replaced with these too though.
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Old May 23, 2015, 7:52 am
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787 appearing on LHR-TLV, January 2016

Surprised this hasn't been spotted before now, as we have a lot of TLV regulars on the board.

Fares are tempting...very tempting...
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:15 am
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Exciting surprise to check my flights in November are now on the 787 opposed to 777. Yay!
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:21 am
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The question is, is it the short test flights for the 787-9 like that of the A380 to FRA and the 787-8 to ARN or is it the 787-8 that AUS is losing.
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:22 am
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Originally Posted by paul4040
Surprised this hasn't been spotted before now, as we have a lot of TLV regulars on the board.

Fares are tempting...very tempting...
Fares ex-UK or ex-EU?
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by Caleklika
The question is, is it the short test flights for the 787-9 like that of the A380 to FRA and the 787-8 to ARN or is it the 787-8 that AUS is losing.
Not selling first - suggests it's the -8 rather than the -9.

First -9 delivery is in mid-September.
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:27 am
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Quick price up was 928 exDub
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:31 am
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Originally Posted by MPH1980
Not selling first - suggests it's the -8 rather than the -9.

First -9 delivery is in mid-September.
They don't sell first on this route anyway? And they didn't sell first on the A380 flights to FRA. Mid-sep for delivery and first 787 service to TLV starting 26th of October... But the AUS route goes to a 777 around then too.
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Old May 23, 2015, 8:36 am
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787 appearing on LHR-TLV, January 2016

It looks like this is more than just January 2016, so a mod is at liberty to edit the title...
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Old May 23, 2015, 9:09 am
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This is a part of a schedule update done to TLV over the weekend:
  1. BA162/3 will see 5 weekly 787 and 2 weekly 777 service. The 777 will be operated, out of LHR on Sundays and Thursday (back a day later from TLV), on which the flights are usually more popular and require larger aircraft.
  2. BA166 will depart on 10:30 on every day it operates, unlike a mixed schedule of 0900/1030 last winter, and 1000 in the summer.

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Old May 23, 2015, 10:09 am
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Nice indeed, at least in J! Is that only for the winter season or continuing into the summer?
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Old May 23, 2015, 10:23 am
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787 appearing on LHR-TLV, January 2016

Currently only in the winter
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Old May 23, 2015, 10:25 am
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It is a 787-8 for sure opposed to a 787-9.

I've got 5 seats in Row 1 for a surprise birthday in November indicating no F.

The 787-9s, from memory, will have F.
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