Boeing's new plane, The Dreamliner 787 inaugurated their first flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong yesterday October 26.
Those travelling from Tokyo to Hong Kong aboard the inaugural flight, on October 26th, will have been the first real travellers to experience what is supposed to make the Dreamliner special: bigger windows, more comfortable seats, softer lighting, higher cabin pressure (and thus a more pleasant atmosphere) and less engine noise. The 787, the world’s first commercial airliner to be built mainly from carbon-fibre composites, is also expected to use about 20% less fuel and cost 30% less to maintain than its forerunners.
The 787 is designed to carry a couple of hundred passengers between long-distance city pairs; its greater efficiency should make more such routes viable. What that means for business travellers is more direct flights, and thus less scurrying to make connections in busy hub airports—something readers of Gulliver, our business-travel blog, will no doubt appreciate. Read more from The economist link here
Source: The Economist :
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