DREAMLINER TO FLY INITIALLY ON SHORT, MEDIUM HAUL ROUTES

New Delhi,India : With the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner for Air India landing here tomorrow, the airline plans to fly it on select domestic and international routes for the next two months before it flies long-haul.

The new 256-seater aircraft, made out of light-weight carbon composite materials, would be flown on routes like Delhi-Dubai on the international sector, Delhi-Kolkata, Delhi -Bangalore and Delhi-Amritsar, airline sources said.

The flights on these short and medium haul routes would be undertaken till October-November for the crew, who are already trained to fly the airplane, to practice more landings and take-offs, the sources said. So far, 65 pilots have been trained to fly this plane.

Then onwards, the Boeing 787s would be deployed on the new long-haul routes to Australia, Europe, Japan and the US.While the first aircraft arrives here tomorrow, the next two would fly out of Boeing facility in Charleston, South Carolina in the US in the next two weeks.

07/09/2012  :  Deccan Herald.

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