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Close Popup. Explore The Museum. Boeing Dreamliner. Interested in this image? Wing Area:. The airplane's unparalleled fuel efficiency and range flexibility enables carriers to profitably open new routes as well as optimize fleet and network performance.

And for their passengers, an experience like none other in the air, with more comfort and less fatigue. The Dreamliner effect. That's a better way to fly. Opening New Routes With the Dreamliner Family Since entering service in , the Dreamliner family is flying more than 1, routes and has made more than new point-to-point routes possible.

Discover the new routes as of On December 15, at precisely a. Pacific on Dec. Boeing, Air Lease Corp. Likewise, the cabins are pressurized at 6, feet versus the 8, feet on more prosaic airliners.

These aren't just gimmicks, but reduce fatigue and increase dehydration and oxygen levels, which matter particularly on longer flights. A gust suppression system smooths out rough air and improves over time as more real data is collected. We experienced this turbulence-attenuating system on that first flight as we descended into a cloudy Hong Kong. Even the lavatories are high-tech -- with touch-sensitive sinks and toilets. Setting a benchmark. After 4. I don't even think we fully realized the scope of how much it would change expectations for commercial aircraft," says Boeing director of product marketing Tom Sanderson, who has been with the program almost since its beginning.

Since that first flight, the has paradoxically been both a dream and nightmare for its customers. It has enabled more than new direct routes, carried more than million airline passengers, and completed more than 2. Before Covid hit, the was flying more than 1, routes worldwide.

Boeing's smaller aircraft vision is the clear winner over the Airbus A superjumbo, which Airbus called time on in Very few people want to actually go to Frankfurt, and most people who used to go through Narita or Heathrow were actually going somewhere else. This jet took them directly to where they wanted to go, which definitely helped stimulate international traffic," says Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at Teal Group.

The was a resounding sales success as the fastest-selling wide-body aircraft in history, outselling its competitors the Airbus Aneo and A As of August , the program had amassed 1, orders for its three variants, carrying up to passengers depending on cabin layout, with range of up to 7, nautical miles. It has replaced thirsty older aviation stalwarts like the and first-generation Airbus As, while hastening the demise of larger As, s and early s.

An eye-popping 1, Dreamliners have been delivered in just a decade between two final assembly lines at Charleston, South Carolina, and Everett, Washington. The was the first Boeing-designed commercial aircraft ever built outside Puget Sound, Washington, though now it's only assembled in South Carolina.

With more than 80 customers since launch, t he backlog stands at , adjusted for ASC accounting standards. The plane proved its value as one of the primary aircraft used as international traffic recovered during the Covid pandemic," says long-time analyst Scott Hamilton of Leeham Company.

The Dreamliner has been the most utilized wide-body through the pandemic, based on the percentage of its fleet operating versus placed in storage versus its direct competitors. August , more than any other commercial airplane type.

Many operators utilized their Dreamliners to exclusively carry freight at the height of the Covid pandemic, bringing in much-needed revenue as air-freight demand surged. Chris Sloan checks out the flight deck during the launch event. The dreams nightmares are made of. A little over a year after entering service, in the first two weeks of January , two s experienced thermal runaway events with its lithium-ion batteries , one of which resulted in an electrical fire.

One of the aircraft flying in Japan was forced to make an emergency landing.