Dreamliner at Beijing
Jul 20, 2015, 7:59 am
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Jul 20, 2015, 10:24 am
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Anytime I read about UA aircraft unexpectedly in Beijing, I think AMECO-the huge Chinese/German maintenance base there. The two firms have a near 20 year history. As a previous poster observed, they may be installing Ku band satellite internet services in the plane before it enters routine service.
Jul 20, 2015, 2:30 pm
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Anytime I read about UA aircraft unexpectedly in Beijing, I think AMECO-the huge Chinese/German maintenance base there. The two firms have a near 20 year history. As a previous poster observed, they may be installing Ku band satellite internet services in the plane before it enters routine service.
Also, I don't think any of the other wifi installs have happened there so that would be an interesting move.
JAL, China Southern and Xiamen all had 787s on the ground there around that time. It would be an unlikely bit of confusion to see one of those tails as the UA logo, but they were there.
Jul 20, 2015, 2:45 pm
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Jul 22, 2015, 3:29 am
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I was pointing out an A380 to my SO who wasn't as impressed when I saw the UA Dreamliner livery but she and my mother inlaw were not interesteted in investingating. I checked flight aware before posting and found no UA 788 or 789 visiting PEK. At first I thought I might be cruising by T3 because of all the fat planes I was seeing but it was T2. Still UA has no scheduled 78x out of PEK.