Originally Posted by
CPH-Flyer
There is only 1 787-8 left to be delivered, so it will be somewhere down the line as the remaining 16 787-9 are delivered. Only one is scheduled for 2016, so a good guess is nothing is going to happen until somewhere in 2017 as earliest option.
However, with a daytime slot to the US from Haneda, and potentially bringing F to DFW from the winter schedule, we may see a bigger shake up of plane allocations from end October.
The last/25th 787-8 with registration #JA845J is due to arrive this end of the month and I think this has already been allocated for the additional NRT-DME frequency starting July 1st.
As for the 787-9s, only 4 frames are scheduled to be delivered until Mar2017 with the following deliveries: Jul, Nov, Feb, Mar/Apr. So unless there is a big revamp, I agree with CPH-Flyer that NRT-SAN/YVR and KIX-LAX might take a while to get upgraded until sometime after FY2017.
As for the AM HND flights from Oct, some news outfits reported last week that JL was not allowed by JCAB/MILT to fly to JFK/ORD due to existing restrictions as part of the rehabilitation process and so only the current flights - SFO/HNL will be moved in the morning. JL is said to be looking at Oct 2017 to offer HND-JFK/ORD after restrictions end by Mar31st.