Despite battery fixes that will likely put its fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners back in the air next month, All Nippon Airways may not resume its 787 service from Tokyo to Seattle until September.
Preliminary schedules from ANA show transpacific service from Tokyo to both Sea-Tac and San Jose, Calif., not resuming until early September.
Both of those routes were pioneering routes for the 787, which with its fuel-efficient design was well-suited for more developmental routes from mid-sized cities to ANA’s Tokyo hub. ANA began its Seattle-Tokyo route last July using Boeing 777s and then last fall substituted the smaller …