inchman Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Just to get away from the negative vibes of the "Delays" thread...There is an AC employee "arrival party" planned on the 18th at the YYZ hanger. Haven't seen the official announcement yet, but have seen a poster requesting volunteers to direct attendees. Each employee can bring up to 5 guests.In-aircraft training (circuits) starts on the 19th, some YHZ turns, then the first overseas flight planned to ZRH on the 25th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Each employee can bring up to 5 guests.What time do you want us to be there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Meet me at spot 1530 at 1500... or was that spot 1500 at 1530? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acsidestick Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Inchman, it says up to 5 immediate family members. Better hurry BDs adoption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp fa Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Adoption could take a while. It might be faster if I just marry him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr1 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Just to get away from the negative vibes of the "Delays" thread...There is an AC employee "arrival party" planned on the 18th at the YYZ hanger. Haven't seen the official announcement yet, but have seen a poster requesting volunteers to direct attendees. Each employee can bring up to 5 guests.In-aircraft training (circuits) starts on the 19th, some YHZ turns, then the first overseas flight planned to ZRH on the 25th.Pretty exciting time for you inchman. Being the front runner on a brand new type is pretty cool, somewhat less so when the inevitable teething problems happen but still a once in a lifetime experience for most of us. I've had a couple of tours of the 87 and I have to say, the front office looks like an awesome place to work.Enjoy the ride.Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Meet me at spot 1530 at 1500... or was that spot 1500 at 1530? Ha ha. Have fun and enjoy your new airplane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 2012 article on 787 from Aviation Week but interesting read.http://aviationweek.com/awin/aviation-week-evaluates-boeing-787 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaEH Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 2nd 787: https://twitter.com/brentcjang/status/466375905712295936/photo/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagger Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/air-canada-welcomes-its-first-dreamliner/article18643753/#dashboard/follows/The Globe's ramping up the coverage. Also some neat time-lapsed video on the assembly of the first aircraft. Air Canada has had little growth in its wide-bodied airplane fleet for 12 years, which has contributed to significant market share loss, Mr. Smith said in an interview in the boardroom of Air Canada’s Toronto office, where he urges a visitor to examine a model of the 787 that graces one corner of the room.He ticks off a list of European cities that competitor Air Transat effectively took over because of lower costs. The Toronto-Tel Aviv flight, where a 787 will replace a 767-300ER (extended range) provides an example of the difference the plane will make.At the moment, the flight takes 12 hours, more than the 11.5 hours crews are allowed to work. So Air Canada had to take out 20 seats to make space for the pilots and flight attendants to rest. That means the current plane offers just 191 seats instead of 211.The 787 that will fly to Tel Aviv has 251 seats. The new planes are 20 per cent more fuel efficient than the 767-300ER models they replace.YYZ-TLV is a good route for the 787-8, right at the very max range of the 767-300ER westbound IIRC, so much so that occasional technical stops were required to add fuel. And cargo load has been suboptimal because of the range, and YYZ-TLV is historically a good yielding cargo route. (Will even carry cargo from Australia and New Zealand into TLV). That's a 31% capacity boost along with a cargo RTM improvement and lower fuel cost. YYZ-HND and YYZ-NRT are other routes at the very edge of the 767-300ER range, a virtual impossibility without a reduced payload, so the 787 capacity bump will translate nicely here, too, but I think the really plane, the true game-changer for AC, will be the 787-9. The way the Globe story is written, one might assume AC is only ordering the 787-8, but not true. It's a split. The last annual report had the split at 15 787-8 and 22 787-9, with the first of the latter due in July 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FA@AC Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 AC has just announced to us that the 2nd and 3rd 787 deliveries have been delayed. 767-300s are to be wet-leased from Euro Atlantic to operate parts of the summer schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Conflicting information.... I got a crew newsletter from the Chief Pilot today that said that 802 arrives on Jun 12 and 803 arrives mid-July. It's possible that the info that you have is a half a cycle out of sequence. I heard a while ago that the first couple of weeks of HND would be operated by other equipment because there was a lot of pressure to start using the slots that AC had acquired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manwest Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Congrats to AC on their first 787 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagger Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1357655/air-canada-s-dreamliner-touches-down-in-torontoSome film of the eventPretty good PR work, AC had all the networks there, the Globe was onboard from Everett, going to be on all the news and there has been lots in print already. It's better PR than Boeing deserves for the myriad ways this first plane was delayed. I think the order was placed nine years ago.All the right people on hand, including ACPA's good friend Lisahttps://twitter.com/lraitt/status/468134147567783936 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Very nice smooth landing ...well done !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pivot Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Congrats! Great looking airplane.To bad CBC takes this opportunity to point out the 787's problems. Why not just enjoy the moment? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/air-canada-s-first-dreamliner-makes-landing-in-toronto-1.2647102 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I'm glad someone reminded her of the slow clap era... not forgotten!Very smart of her to bring her kid.Regardless, pretty cool looking machine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Some sort of V.I.P. / media event happening with the 787 this morning... news trucks were pulling in as I left the hangar this morning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Some sort of V.I.P. / media event happening with the 787 this morning... news trucks were pulling in as I left the hangar this morning...First hangar rash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagger Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 These videos are very well done https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-oAkZkE0UlaJVwu3Za1iKg Pilots should have a look at the link ending in 15. Pure Field of Dreams stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 First hangar rash? No, not yet. I heard the first ramp rash experienced by a AC 787 already happened before it left Seattle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 There was no damage to the aircraft (803) except for some paint. The incident occurred about 6 weeks ago.Heard a lot of "further delays" at the event the other day, but these are just people talking about delays that a lot of people already know about.Current delivery schedule for the next 2 fins is June 17th (flying training flights in YYZ on the 17th) and early July (with flights starting mid-July). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinair Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Beautiful machine! I'm teal with envy. Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFox Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 There was no damage to the aircraft (803) except for some paint. The incident occurred about 6 weeks ago.Heard a lot of "further delays" at the event the other day, but these are just people talking about delays that a lot of people already know about.Current delivery schedule for the next 2 fins is June 17th (flying training flights in YYZ on the 17th) and early July (with flights starting mid-July).Any idea when we'll see one in YVR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted May 21, 2014 Author Share Posted May 21, 2014 Not sure if you're talking about just seeing one or a crew base for one, but I would imagine that during the first couple of weeks of any of the deliveries the aircraft will be doing some PR trips to various cities before it gets committed to sked destinations.As far as a crew base goes, sounds like YVR-Tokyo (not sure if it's HND or NRT) and YVR-Shanghai are in the cards later this year. It would make sense to have some crews in YVR to operate those flights if they will be going daily, IMO, but it might also make sense to keep some control on the operation at one base for the first little while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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