US transportation authorities are launching a review of the Dreamliner, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
Boeing admitted on Wednesday that it would have to redesign parts of its troubled 787 Dreamliner, raising the prospect of a third delay to delivery of the new aircraft would be delayed for the third time in recent months. The company's comments came in response to a warning from Steven Udvar-Hazy, chairman of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), the 787's biggest customer.
The carrier expects to restart Dreamliner operations for domestic flights by mid-May, Ajit Singh said.
Ethiopian Airlines became the world's first carrier to resume flying Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner passenger jets, landing the first commercial flight since the global fleet was grounded three months ago.
Japan Airlines has become the first airline to launch Dreamliner Boeing 787 flights to India.
Air India got its third Boeing 787 Dreamliner on Tuesday from the new North Charleston facility of the US-based manufacturer.
The Dreamliner will allow Air India to finally match the right kind of routes with the right kind of planes, while launching new ones. Some say it won't solve the airline's problems.
Air India would start inspecting its six Boeing 787 Dreamliners from Tuesday.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-range, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner.
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The Dreamliner's introduction on the daily Singapore route is on popular demand, said Nirbhik Narang, Air India's country manager in Singapore.
An Air India Dreamliner, with 184 passengers and crew onboard operating on London-Delhi route, made "priority" landing at the IGI Airport after some warning lights indicating problem with the braking system blipped in the cockpit.
The aircrafts were flown to Mumbai for maintainance reasons
Air India's entire European operations are carried out with Boeing Dreamliner planes.
The overheating of the oven during a July 24 flight from New Delhi to Kolkata did not cause a fire
The airline will fly the A320s between the Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
The company officials informed that a static test of the fuselage was over and an analysis of the results could be finished by the end of December.
Dreamliner is a 256 seater plane with 18 business class seats and 238 economy class seats.
Air India's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner will start flying on domestic routes from September 19, with the airline hoping that the fuel-efficient aircraft will bring back its good old 'Maharaja' days by saving costs.
Sale, leaseback of aircraft fetch Air India $150 million; funds to be used to partly repay bridge loan.
A Boeing team of experts would be flying to India to assess the situation arising out of a series of faults in Air India's Dreamliner aircraft, even as the airline insisted that the aircraft is safe.
"The deliveries of all 787 dreamliners will start from the second quarter of the next financial year and will complete by 2014. These fuel-efficient aircraft will help us reduce costs of our long-haul operations," said an Air India official.
After rectifying battery glitches, Air India has inducted 6 aircraft so far
Air India's Dreamliner fleet suffered 136 "minor" technical problems between their delivery since September last year and till late last month, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has said.
By Friday, two of these Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes would be test-flown several times daily between Delhi and Amritsar so that the pilots and cabin crew get the experience of several landings and take-offs.
It can be a game changer experience for all the long haul travellers for whom flying long hours is a nauseating experience.
The announcement by Air India CMD Rohit Nandan came on a day when two of the airline's six Dreamliners resumed commercial operations and operated regular flights from Delhi to Bengaluru and Kolkata.
Air India has put all its newly-acquired Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner planes for sale and leaseback and invited bids from prospective lessors by February first week, even as all of these aircraft remained grounded across the world.
Last week, governments across the world grounded the Dreamliner while Boeing halted deliveries after a problem with a lithium-ion battery on a second 787 plane, flown by All Nippon Airways Co, forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in western Japan.
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has allowed Boeing to carry out flight tests of its 787 Dreamliner in order to help it check its troubled electrical system and batteries which is suspected to be the root cause of battery fire in one of its planes last month.
It is raining trouble for Air India's Dreamliner fleet as one of the aircraft was forced to return to New Delhi on Thursday after developing a windshield crack mid-air on its way to Kolkata.
A part of the proceeds will also be used for operational requirements, sources said in Mumbai. The carrier has already taken the delivery of 11 Dreamliners and three more are expected to join the fleet by March of next year.
The windshield of Air India Dreamliner which developed a crack while landing at the airport in Melbourne is expected to return Delhi tonight after being repaired, officials said.
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, a project which was marred by repeated delays and obstacles, is an instance of the most advanced aviation technology available. Its aerodynamic design, engines, flight controls and avionics are almost part of the aviation folklore.
The airline will induct four more Dreamliners next year to complete order of 27 of these aircraft
With the plane experiencing problems one after another, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said there were no safety issues and the faults would be worked out.
The maiden flight, which is part of a comprehensive flight-test programme leading to its certification and delivery in mid-2014, was for over five hours with a Boeing spokesperson saying here that it was successful.
The makers of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft, Boeing, on Wednesday expressed concern over recurring glitches on the plane while at the same time insisting that it was a machine which had never caused issues with the safety of passengers.
Air India plans to buy 27 B-787 'Dreamliners' from Boeing which are to be delivered in phases.
An Air India Dreamliner, flying non-stop from Sydney to Delhi, with 215 people on board, on Wednesday landed in Kuala Lumpur under emergency conditions after its cockpit panels suffered a software malfunction.
