Boeing’s B787 Dreamliner flew into Tokyo from Seattle on Sunday for test flights as All Nippon Airways prepares to become the world’s first airline to deploy the new fuel-efficient long-haul jet.

Painted in the ANA colours of white and blue, the B787 taxied to a hangar through an arch of water sprayed from two airport fire-trucks.

“It got good mileage as we used less fuel than what we thought would be enough,” the plane’s Japanese captain Masami Tsukamoto told reporters. “It is an environmentally-friendly plane.”

The B787’s fuselage has been made lighter as it is 50 per cent made of carbon fibre and other composite materials. According to Boeing, ts fuel efficiency is 20 per cent better than the similarly-sized Boeing 767, which will be replaced by the new aircraft.

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