Originally Posted by
adambrau
As much as I want to experience the 787, and despite all the frequently mentioned maintenance issues on 777/767/744's, I am still too afraid to book onto the Dreamliner. The only 787 flight I might take in my normal flying pattern would be LAX-NRT or perhaps DEN-NRT, but I have stayed away from it, either going EWR-NRT/HKG or SFO-NRT. I don't know if there are published stats available to the public, but does anyone know if dispatch reliability on the 787 is really worse than the 777/767/747 types?
Adam
I kept monitoring ontime performance of UA138/139 and other NRT-US cities with 747/777. I have stayed away from UA138/139 (B787) last year and earlier this year since (I believe) there were higher chance of delay on B787. Over the summer (I think) the performance of UA138/137 improved and I started taking UA 138/137 (more comfortable in E+ than 777/747).
I have no idea what was wrong with UA198 for the past 5 days. It seems UA138/139 were doing fine for the same time span.