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Is British Airways 787 the only one without the dreamliner titles

picture from of another site, but it appears that they haven’t got the Dreamliner 787 logo/name anywhere on there aircraft, is this the only airline not willing to advertise this?

http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Boeing-787-8-Dreamliner/2259919/M/

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By: garryrussell - 11th May 2013 at 13:25

If will quietly slip especially since the Americans love numbers rather than names….TriStar being a El Ten-Eleven to them.

Lufthansa don’t call their 747-830 “i”‘s or Intercontinental, a name once applied to the 707-320/420 but never, it seemed, in actual use.

C-5, C-141, C-17, C-47 and in fact most, if not all military types that have a name, seem never to be used by the US unless it’s a nickname

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By: MSR777 - 11th May 2013 at 11:44

I seem to remember back in the late 50s/early 60s, there was some ‘badge engineering’ with the Lockheed Electra, following a spate of accidents involving the aircraft. The Electra badging was eliminated altogether by some carriers, although some reinstated it following mods done to the wing structure. I think that it was rebadged Super Electra, or Electra II by some. The same thing happened to the DC10 I think, with some carriers reducing the titles size, or dropping the name altogether.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 11th May 2013 at 11:42

I suppose ‘Dreamliner’ is just a semi-official moniker designed to promote the aircraft in its early years. It will probably disappear as people get used to saying ‘787’ as they do for any other Boeing aircraft.
There is a variant of the B777 that was once called the ‘Worldliner’, isn’t there? But, I suspect it is no longer referred to as such.

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By: Amiga500 - 11th May 2013 at 10:42

picture from of another site, but it appears that they haven’t got the Dreamliner 787 logo/name anywhere on there aircraft, is this the only airline not willing to advertise this?

Despite all the Boeing hype… it is just another aircraft.

In 30 years time, there will be something better. [Airbus would argue that in 3 years time there will be something better.]

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By: Cking - 11th May 2013 at 08:44

Good thing too!. The first time one goes tech the press will be full of “BA’s Nightmareliner” or have pictures of one with a hole in it and say “BA’s dream turn’s sour”. Why give the gutter press any help by painting dream on the side of it?

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