Thomson Airways (London Luton) has taken delivery of its first of four B787-9s on order from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) following the arrival of G-TUIJ (msn 44578) at Manchester International on Tuesday, June 28. The remaining three are expected to be delivered by June 2019.

The UK leisure operator plans to use the twinjet for shorthaul flights from Manchester International to Malaga on July 1 initially before deploying it onto longhaul flights to Montego Bay, Jamaica (again from Manchester) on July 15.