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> To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first
by koolba 8y ago
> To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how badly they rushed that initial production.
Ouch. Anybody know where to get a list of who’s operating the planes from that first year of deliveries?
Do airlines publish the serial numbers for upcoming flights? ie is it possible to check the delivery order of the plane you’re potentially flying on?
- dx034 8y agoSometimes, online flight trackers estimate the registration prior to the flight and they usually have the serial number as well (otherwise you can look it up on airfleets, plane spotters etc). For some flights it's easy to estimate the registration yourself (if the only plane available is a current inbound flight). But generally, you won't get that info more than a day in advance. Airlines won't even know it more than a week in advance, they only know that it'll be one of a pool of planes of the same type.
- dosy 8y agoBut typically the same types of planes fly the same routes, I would imagine.
- notahacker 8y agoAircraft model is set in advance (has to be, the airline needs to know how many seats available to sell) but late model substitutions sometimes do happen. And if you want delivery year of the aircraft with an airline operating multiple aircraft of that type, you're probably going to have to know serial/tail number which might not be possible to determine until very late on.
- jnsaff2 8y agohttps://www.planespotters.net/production-list/Boeing/787 https://www.planespotters.net/production-list/Boeing/787 rest should be easy. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/bdfqm4/the_real_reason_boeings_new_plane_crashed_twice/ekz39ld/ https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/bdfqm4/the_real_rea... gives some background and estimates the first 'safe' plane to be SN 27.
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- theNJR 8y agoYah that gave me shivers. I’m flying a 787 in June.
- ndmrcf 8y agoSlightly unrelated but I've built https://myplane.info/ https://myplane.info/ to quickly check if my plane is still the same before the flight. AFAIK, in case of a plane change than the scheduled, we have right to get a full refund* with most of the airlines. I'm thinking about adding a notification feature on that. *Edit: Upon my findings, full refund case above is not available with all airlines, but rebooking option being offered instead.
- whitepoplar 8y agoWhich airlines provide full refunds? Do they allow this for both changed aircraft types and N-numbers, or only the former?
- ndmrcf 8y agoFew articles quote American Airlines, I've found the related page: https://www.aa.com/i18n/Tariffs/AA1.html https://www.aa.com/i18n/Tariffs/AA1.html If you search for 'category 16' and go to 4.C.III, equipment change is considered as 'not acceptable' for the passenger. Source: https://onemileatatime.com/airline-schedule-change-airplane-change/ https://onemileatatime.com/airline-schedule-change-airplane-...
- anotheryou 8y agoyes, it's possible, but only on a very short notice e.g. via https://www.flightradar24.com/airport/phl/departures https://www.flightradar24.com/airport/phl/departures I think there was a way to find the info without paying premium, but I forgot what of these names to put on to google to get more info on the specific plane.