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Presentation of Boeing-787 Dreamliner in Azerbaijan to be held on April 2

29 March 2012 08:49 (UTC +04:00)

This leg of the tour will include five cities across South America, Central Asia, Russia and Europe. AZAL spokesman Maharram Safarli said that the first presentation within this tour was planned to hold for Azerbaijan.

Boeing-787 Dreamliner will be delivered in Baku on April 2. After being here one day it will be sent to Moscow, Istanbul and Madrid.

Azerbaijan plans to purchase the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner in 2014 and use it for direct flights over long distances.

Note that, Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong in October 2011. The first purchaser of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft was a Japanese All Nippon Airways.

The weight of Boeing 787 Dreamliner was reduced to 45 tons in comparison with the analogous German Airbus A330-200. In addition, fuel consumption of the airliner has been reduced by 20%, the amount of harmful emissions - by 20%, the windows and saloon were increased by 65%. Jet passenger planes - Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, are capable of making non-stop flights by up to 15 thousand miles and carry 200-250 passengers.