United flies from Los Angeles to Melbourne directly with its newest plane the 787-9 Dreamliner.

15 hours 45 minutes

Award space on United's Dreamliners in Business Class has been abysmal, but I wanted to check in and see if anything was different on this route.

We want to get into these flat beds up front

The good news is that there is award space on the route in both directions for two people in Business Class.

What is the award space picture? 
How many miles does the flight to Australia

Update 10/23/14: Commenter Jeremy finds the award space now on aeroplan.com, and I can confirm that the space on these Ethiopian flights is now bookable and is still excellent! (None of the rest of the post has been updated to reflect this information.)

Ethiopian Airlines will begin flying Los Angeles to Dublin to Addis Ababa in June 2015 with a 787 Dreamliner.

United's first flight on the brand new 787-9 Dreamliner is set for October 26, 2014 between Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.

Currently United serves Melbourne as a tag flight from Sydney after a brief layover.

Official word of the route is expected later today, but we don't need the announcement because we can see the flights loaded onto the calendar at united.com and up for sale right now.

What's the award space picture? What are the flight times? What is the difference between the 787-8 and 787-9?

Royal Jordanian is a member of the oneworld alliance with American Airlines, and is based in Amman, Jordan.

United will operate its 787 Dreamliner between San Francisco and Chengdu, China three times a week beginning June 9, 2014 according to Airline Route.

I follow United's Dreamliner route announcements because United has an awesome Business Class product (confusingly called "BusinessFirst"), United releases good award space on its own routes, and the Dreamliner is an awesome plane with great passenger comforts and environmental benefits.

What is the flight schedule?

According to Airline Route, United will fly its Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Houston to London from December 20, 2013 to May 5, 2014.

I like to track the routes of Dreamliners that fly to the US because they're a great way for beginners to get a state-of-the-art business class flights that are easy redemptions.

This route from Houston to London has the best business class award availability I've seen on any United Dreamliner route.

When is the award space?

Update: British Airways 787 Business Class Full Trip Report

Last month I saw this thread about British Airways taking delivery of its new A380 and 787 and training the crews on intra-European routes.

United has added its Dreamliners back to the schedule, which is good news for plane geeks. The FAA grounded United's 787-8 Dreamliners in January, but they are back on the upcoming flight schedule starting May 31.

Why This Is Cool

United recently acquired several Boeing 787 Dreamliners and announced the first international routes that will be serviced by the plane.

image from seatguru.com

The plane has no first class (Global First), 36 business class seats (BusinessFirst), and a few hundred economy seats.

Today, I was driving home and got a call from United. It went a little like this:
"Hello, This is United. We are calling about your upcoming trip on our new 787 Dreamliner.