A United Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has hightailed it back to Rome Fiumicino Airport just minutes after taking off bound for Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). The news marks the fourth such incident for the four-year-old aircraft – registered as N27958 – over the course of the past week. Though Italian authorities have not provided
Qantas will end Boeing 747-400/400ER flights to the United States mainland in December 2019 when it switches the Sydney-San Francisco route to the 787-9 Dreamliner.
United plans to add a fifth route to its Australian network from October 2019 when it commences nonstop flights between Melbourne Tullamarine and San Francisco. The airline will operate Boeing 787-9s three times a week on the Melbourne-San Francisco route from October 29 2019. Currently, United serves Sydney from Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco,