The Japanese airline is celebrating despite difficult times: ten years ago, the company used the Boeing 787 (“Dreamliner”) aircraft type, which was completely newly developed by Boeing, on intercontinental long-haul routes – with the flight connection between Frankfurt and Tokyo/Haneda.

At the time, the flight was a premiere in several respects: the additional daily flight connection between Frankfurt and Tokyo was the first connection from Germany to Haneda Airport, which is close to the city. In contrast to Narita Airport, which is much further away, it was reserved exclusively for domestic flights for decades. Even during the corona pandemic, which is having a dramatic impact on the global aviation industry and during which Japan is particularly protective, the flight connection between Frankfurt and Tokyo will remain open. It was flown continuously during the pandemic. ANA is already serving the route daily again and is even offering it twice a day on a few days a week – with the Boeing 787.

Ten years ago, the "Dreamliners" were still rare in the world: Japan's largest airline was already using some of the aircraft as a launch customer and had already transported its first 100.000 passengers with this jet, mostly within Japan. But for the daily operation of the Frankfurt – Tokyo/Haneda route, for which two jets are needed, the second aircraft with intercontinental equipment, for example, was still missing. Accordingly, the arrival of the first Boeing 787, which will serve Europe with a scheduled connection in the future, was observed at Frankfurt Airport by numerous aircraft fans, spotters and journalists.