Friday, January 11th
We had a great day planned for us to visit the 777, 747 and finally the 787 Dreamliner at the Boeing Everett facility and then following, a visit to the Dreamliner Customer Experience Center. We were taken to the largest facility by volume in the world that houses all three of these product lines. Some interesting stats are that the facility has 1 million light bulbs, spends $60K a day on electricity, the doors (and there are many) are the size of NFL football fields, and there are a number of other very impressive stats to give you some idea as to the sheer size of this facility. We had a wonderful day on this tour as we got to see the process of making a multitude of airplanes and VERY up close and personal views of the process and product. We got to see the interiors of the airplanes, the cockpits – a couple of us actually got to sit in the pilot’s and co-pilot’s chairs, the attendents’ rest (a spot for extra crews on the long distance flights to get some rest that are located above the customers), as well as the cargo hold. Pretty interesting to see all of these parts of the planes that we had been travelling on over the previous 5 days that we hadn’t seen yet.
After these tours, we were brought to the Dreamliner Customer Experience Center to see how each 787 customer will modify and specify all the details of their great purchases. From the fabric, window treatment, seats, safety equipment, lighting scheme, galleys, and layout, every aspect of the plane is seemingly adjustable. Not open to the public, we truly saw a very unique side to the airline business through this tour. Hope that you will be able to go on this tour next year too LFM ‘10’s!
We were on our own for dinner that night so our class split into many sub-groups to go celebrate the weekend and have a good time exploring Seattle. I trekked to Buckley’s over by the Space Needle and would definitely recommend it to any and all Seattle bound travelers.
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