Originally Posted by
iceman49
Wonder how many pax that will not be going through ATL or DTW to get to Tokyo.
Sunday marked the first U.S. passenger flight for Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, with Japan Airlines flying non-stop between Tokyo and Boston.
That is a good question and one that Delta was a leader in answering with the 767-300ER.
There is no doubt the 787 will do to some existing fleets what the 767ER did to the 747-100/200, or what RJ's did to the 727.
I keep preaching to anyone who will listen that we need to look beyond seat limits to the real operational numbers for these airplanes and understand that a 76 seater with 757 economics is a 757.
By the same token, if the 787 can turn in better than A330 / 747 / 777 numbers then you are exactly right ... fly over the hub.
In the short term what you are probably seeing is that the Japanese Government has pumped about 10 to 12 (maybe more) Billion into JAL and they are competitors that we really can't compete with. It just isn't a fair game.
On our side of the ocean government is trying to figure out how to extract the maximum amount of revenue out of us and our passengers, same in Europe. No wonder the Asian and Middle Eastern carriers are growing ... the have a government that supports their business (or at least gets out of the way).