I am amazed by the criticism staff at thejournal regularly get in the comments pages. They bring us constantly updated news from 7am-11pm everyday for free. If you don’t like what they post, go elsewhere. Well done Christine and all your colleagues for your constant news coverage. BTW, the 787 leaves at 3pm today.

So that’s what those people do parked up on the road beside the runway at Dublin airport – that’s not what I thought they were doing I can tell ye!

Imagine the inside of that plane once it’s been Ryanairized. Shudder. Nice looking jet though.

Christine Bohan, it’s a great article, very well written, you should stop defending and explaining it, just saying!

I sure would love a chill out space like the boeing has, I’m 6″6 and could do with the leg room, normally I need a shoe horn to get me out of the cramped seats :-)

its here to do with some aircraft leasing expo/conference in dublin,over 50% of the worlds leasing companies are based in ireland,departs today

I was on a virgin atlantic flight about 15 ir 16 years ago that had screens in the back of seats and content on demand on them along with snes nintendo games.

Sick I missed it. Much prefer to see the A380 though. Looking forward to my first flight on both.

Hi Does anyone have the flight number and whats its next destination.Im Watching the skies

Does anyone know exactly when it’s leaving?

Was on this baby this morning as part of work trip!! It’s a beautiful aircraft!!

Well the airline I fly for has a few dozen of these on order and I assure you it will be no different to flying in any other plane! It’ll have the same seats as the rest of the fleet, it’ll have the same food and most importantly it’ll have the same fuel surcharges on the ticket price despite it being 20% more fuel efficient!!!!

I was on it before it took off earlier. It’s a beautiful piece of engineering. It doesn’t create as much noise as other aircraft and I can’t wait to see it back in Dublin sometime in the future full to the brim with the tourists our economy needs.

Here is the departure folks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Afin_NvlM3s

It doesn’t really look all that different from other jets – and if it’s meant to compete with the A380 it’ll lose badly.

Plus, all this ‘relaxation area’ stuff is likely to be first class only, so unless you want to remortgage the house your trip on economy won’t feel any different to a 737.

Why all the hype now? It was in Shannon twice last year. I’d expect such Dublin-centric reporting from RTE but come on Journal.ie!!

Great stuff journal.ie . Yes for the non plane enthusiasts nothing much to see. The 20% weight saving using composites the stuff looks the same as metal. However less weight means more fuel saving and longer flight range. For the steerage class a bit more comfortable for the longer flights. For the green brigade the fuel figures are probably similar to A380 nearly 90 miles to the gallon per passenger (3.3l per 100 kilometers). Not that CO2 emissions are harmful to the planet if you ignore the fake CO2 will cook our goose crews ,but there would be real drops in CO2 emissions per average flight . Examples are 767 twin engine jet will in first half hour of flight burn 11 tons of fuel to get to cruising height and only fly at speeds of sub 300MPH. After that at cruising height the plane will cruise at 550MPH plus and burn 6 tons of fuel for the first few hours, As the fuel weight drops the plane will burn 5 tons per hour. Later again on the longer hauls the fuel consumption drops closer to 4 tons per hour. Average MPG per passenger is probably more than 70MPG. Compare a Deamliner flight without hub flight model with three take offs where the fuel consumption is greatest and the probably two legs use smaller planes like 737 that get more like 60MPG per passenger seat and it jumps out at you the fuel saving the Dreamliner can achieve on point to point long haul flights .
Airliners are not in the cutting the CO2 emissions they are in the fuel saving trade as that makes more profits. If planes fly further with less fuel they can carry more passengers and make more profits. There is nothing in it for airliners to buy gas gussler planes.The Dreamliner class of planes shows that airliners are often exceeding all green targets set for them as they have a serious reason not to use to much fuel. However green movements rarely show these facts often quoting the fuel figures from 1960 gas gussler jets. The result is airlines chose the logic ignore the greens who want planes to run on water. The airlines would also love plane to run on water but are in the real world how to make the most profits and burn the least amount of fuel. Also there is the reality that there are many saving to be had on the ground costs at airports from the lack of necessity to land to refuel.
However its not all good news. The massive capital costs which are the biggest costs in most planes makes the Dreamliner a huge investment as composites don’t come cheap. In this time where passenger numbers to many destinations are low and fuel and airport charges are not such a big charge it makes the hub solution flights the logical solution for most airlines. Fuel costs often make ~25% of flight costs where capital costs often exceed ~50% of the cost of each flight .
However there are still many long range routes with high passenger numbers such as Moscow New York where a Dreamliner is the only real solution( bad news for Shannon refuel stops).
Like trains are not the solution for all transport and will never replace all bus travel we will probably see the two solutions Dreamliner point to point flying and the
hub solution work alongside for a great many decades

Apart from the “relaxation area” I don’t see anything different about the aircraft. The screens on the back of seats were on a flight I took 10+ years ago, saw them recently on a TAM aircraft as well. The cockpit looks like a
cockpit!

ANA are the launch customers… Don’t really know why it’s here. I saw them rolling off the assembly line in Everett last summer. United, Delta and Ethiad have orders and serve Dublin so we could see a couple serve here

Boeing is quietly pleased with your uncritical publicity, journal.ie.

Sorry, Boeing, but the A380 still beats you hands down.

Wow, it looks just as uncomfortable and degrading to travel in as all the other tin cans.

new mode of transport for kenny and co.

Just watched the video of it landing… Seminal moment! :-/