British Airways | 25th Boeing 787 Dreamliner touches down

British Airways’ 25th Dreamliner, a 787-8 aircraft, touched down at its new Heathrow home on September 29, taking the total number of long-haul aircraft in the airline’s fleet to 137.

The aircraft, registration G-ZBJI departed from the Boeing Seattle factory at 18:08 local Seattle time yesterday and landed at Heathrow airport at 11:26 local London time this morning, with a total flight time of nine hours and 18 minutes.

British Airways’ latest 787-8 will spend two days at the airline’s engineering base at Heathrow airport where it has its ‘pre-service’ inspection ahead of its inaugural customer flight.

After it has completed its inspection the aircraft is currently scheduled to take its first customer journey to Montreal, as the BA095 on Sunday October 1.