Barcelona to Tokyo anytime soon?

In my previous post I mentioned the international expansion plans of All Nippon Airways (ANA). Today this article in Business Traveller confirms that the, at least until now, second-largest Japanese carrier is onto something...The expansion is now in Asia, but is there a chance that we are going to see ANA operating at BCN alongside its Star Alliance partner Spanair some day in the future? Let's hope that the upcoming entry into service of the Boeing 787, with its improved operational economics and ANA as the launch customer, would make this prospect a little bit more possible...