Will LY receive their 1st 787 for Summer 2017?
Sep 21, 2016, 8:45 pm
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Well, LY will receive the first 2 from Boeing in the "second half of 2017" but interms of when official service on the plane will commence..will be anyone's guess. I imagine it would be 2-3 months after that, as Air Canada took about 2 months before they put theirs into service after receiving them.
Sep 25, 2016, 5:11 am
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Sep 25, 2016, 6:30 am
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For the 788, I would say:
-24 flat bed seats in a 2-2-2 layout for C
- 36 Y+ seats (9 abreast, 35")
- 191 Y seats (9 abreast, 32")
Just my guess
Sep 25, 2016, 6:55 am
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The Current Production Table on All Things 787 says Late July for the 1st 787 to LY which will be a lease from ALC.
Sep 25, 2016, 12:19 pm
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Sep 26, 2016, 12:06 am
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They've removed F seats from other wide-bodies to make the class smaller as it is, and anyways no F on the 767s which the 787s are mostly replacing. F is also slowly disappearing and many of the airlines that LY competes with, and with very limited exceptions on BA to/from LHR, there's no F between Israel and Europe (some 787 routes) or on other long-haul routes to/from Israel that the 787 will fly.
Sep 26, 2016, 3:48 pm
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So it is basically LY (747,777), BA164/5 and some KE flights.
Sep 27, 2016, 12:59 am
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We'll see how long BA continues with F (on this route, at all, etc.). KE isn't a major competitor of LY and even if LY uses their 787s to reach the Far East, that should hardly be a deciding factor on the question of F. As for LX, they don't have F service, and assuming they haven't swapped the aircraft, I don't think they really allow anyone in those seats except HONs and maybe SENs. As a non-M&M *G, I was booked in F, including F on the USA-ZRH leg, but no luck sitting in F seats ZRH-TLV. Booked on F ticket through LX, *G, and willing to pay money to sit there but no dice