Flew on a 787 from DEN to NRT today…
FLT 139 was over an hour late getting out due to a ‘computer glitch’ in the cockpit, there was a ‘warning’ on the TTY that they couldn’t clear and had to call a senior maintainer to get it finally fixed…
Nickyneat little ‘personal’ screen in the seat back of the seat ahead of you. Problem is the system died on takeoff and it took over an hour and a half of the FAs screwing with it to get it to come back up… (Appears to be a known problem)
Quieter??? Maybe, but I’m half deaf… And people were playing with the windows for about 15 minutes.
Smoother ride??? It’s a more ‘squishy’ ride, kinda like an old Super Connie or a B-52. All the wing flap makes for some interesting side to side motions rather than the up/down motions. I went back to the tail during one set of bumps, and there IS a significant improvement over the Airbus and it’s frantic tail motions trying to stabilize the airplane with rudder/elevator movements. Bottom line, it still bumps and bounces just like all the other airplanes. 
If you ain’t the lead dog the view doesn’t change… Only positive, better overhead bins that you can actually FIT rollaboards in. And the seats are a tad bit better, more like the seats on the Shinkansan in Japan, the seat bottom rotates slightly in conjunction with the seat back to give one a little bit of repositioning. So that takes the seats from a 2 to a 3 on a scale of 10…
The aisles are VERY narrow, leading to anyone walking by bumping folks sitting on the aisles unless they sidle down sideways. Got banged by the serving cart, got a big bruise coming on my knee; FA didn’t give a rats ass… No surprise… It was “MY” fault…
Way too much of this…
Finally… Typically lousy food, supposed ‘chicken’ had no identifiable parts that ‘I’ would call chicken. Typically grouchy older flight attendants, the younger ones seemed to be at least trying to provide good service.
Bottom line, another cattle car… A little newer, but at least it’s a Boeing…
Oh yeah, and I get here just in time to get smacked with a typhoon…
Typhoon Wipha… Max winds 105 kts, the eye is expected to ‘miss’ us by 10 miles…
Sigh…
