New Delhi: State-run Air India Ltd will resume flying its Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner passenger jets from Wednesday, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday, almost four months after the planes were grounded due to safety concerns. Air India has six Dreamliners and has ordered 21 more.
The planes have been grounded worldwide since January following incidents of overheating in the batteries providing auxiliary power. Boeing has since worked to develop new battery housings to prevent a repeat of the incidents.
Air India will start a Dreamliner domestic flight on Wednesday and will start international flights on May 22, Singh told reporters, adding that all six of its Dreamliners would be ready for flying by the end of May. Air India would also acquire eight more Dreamliners by December, he added.
He also said Air India was expected to post a net loss of about 40 billion rupees for the current fiscal year ending March 2014, compared with about 52 billion rupees in the previous fiscal year....
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01:06 PM, May 14, 2013
Boeing Co has found a way to fix battery problems with its grounded 787 Dreamliner jets which involves increasing the space between cells, a source familiar with the US company's plans said. "The gaps between cells will be bigger. I think that's why there was overheating," said the source, who declined to be identified because the plans are private. ...
05:08 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Japan's two biggest airlines replaced below-par lithium-ion batteries on their Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners in the months before separate incidents led to the technologically advanced aircraft being grounded worldwide due to battery problems. ...
02:47 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The slow progress of investigations into battery problems on Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jets suggest the new plane could be grounded for months, raising fears that the financial hit to Boeing will be greater than had been initially predicted. Wall Street had been working on the assumption that safety inspectors would find the root cause of two battery incidents in the United States and Japan within weeks and Boeing would...
10:42 AM, Jan 26, 2013
India on Thursday grounded all six of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft operated by state-owned carrier Air India. The Indian aviation regulator said the decision was made after the US Federal Aviation Administration and Japan also grounded their Dreamliner aircraft. ...
09:14 AM, Jan 17, 2013
North Charleston: Representatives from Air India took delivery on Friday of the first Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner made in South Carolina and the first manufactured outside Boeing Commercial Airplane's headquarters in Washington state. The delivery marks another milestone in Boeing's efforts to broaden its production base beyond Washington, where all of its other jets have been built. The 787 is largely outsourced to other countries, with wings and other parts...
09:30 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Chennai: Air India's much touted Dreamliner made its first flight from New Delhi to Chennai and was accorded a water cannon salute accompanied by traditional pujas on arrival at at the airport in Chennai. The flight commandeered by Captain AS Soman touched down Chennai with 118 people amidst cheers and water cannon salute on the festival day of Vinakayaka Chaturthi. Traditional pujas such as breaking of coconut to mark the...
02:31 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: After a delay of nearly four years in its delivery, National carrier Air India will begin flying Boeing 787 Dreamliner on domestic routes from Wednesday. The 256-seater was to be handed over to Air India in 2008, but issues like supply delays and labour trouble delayed the process. Air India has placed an order for 27 dreamliners in all and is hoping to get them by 2016. "Dreamliner...
06:22 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: National carrier Air India on Wednesday said it plans to deploy its newly-acquired Boeing 787 Dreamliner in service from September 19, with the first commercial flight slated between New Delhi and Chennai. "Dreamliner will start flying on domestic routes from September 19. The first flight will be on the Delhi-Chennai route. Later on, six more destinations will be added", said Rohit Nandan, chairman and managing director, Air India....
12:37 AM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: The advanced Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Air India touched down at Delhi's IGI Airport on Saturday, ending an over four-year wait of the struggling national carrier to add this next-generation airplane in its fleet. The plane, painted in red and yellow livery of Air India, landed at the main runway of the airport at 1705 hours and was given water-cannon salute as it taxied to the bay. After...
06:14 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: After a delay of nearly four years in its deliveries, Air India's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner will finally land in Delhi's IGI airport on Saturday evening. The 256-seater Boeing 787 aircraft was to be handed over to Air India in 2008 but logistical issues like supply delays and labour trouble delayed the process. One of the aircraft meant for Air India suffered a last minute hitch when debris...
10:03 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: With Air India's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner landing inNew Delhi on Wednesday, a definitive delivery schedule for the aircraft would be firmed up soon as two more are ready for delivery, official sources said. The last hurdle in taking delivery of this plane has been cleared with the Law and Justice Ministry giving its nod to the compensation settlement agreement which Air India would sign with the US...
09:30 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi:The government on Friday gave a go-ahead to Air India to induct the much-awaited Boeing 787 Dreamliners into its fleet but would conduct separate negotiations on the issue of compensation for failure of the aircraft to meet performance guarantees. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal of Civil Aviation Ministry, at a meeting this evening, and allowed Air India to take delivery of 27 Boeing 787 aircraft...
08:59 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Wednesday approved a compensation package sought by Air India from US aircraft maker Boeing for a four-year delay in delivery of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes. "The GoM considered it and now we will send it to the CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs). ... It will be taken up whenever the next CCEA meeting is held," Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told...
05:34 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Washington: A new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft - which is to be delivered to Air India - has successfully completed its first test flight in South Carolina, the plane manufacturing company has said. "The airplane will now be flown to Texas to be painted with Air India's livery before returning to Boeing's South Carolina plant for a mid-2012 delivery," an official statement said. This is the first Dreamliner built in...
08:30 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled in favour of the Indian Pilots Guild in the Boeing Dreamliner training programme issue. This means that the Air India pilots will get to fly the bulk of the Boeing Dreamliner carriers. However, the HC ruled that there will be no new training programme for pilots unless the recommendations of Dharmadhikari Commission report are made public and implemented. The HC will...
12:17 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Four international flights of Air India were cancelled from Mumbai and Delhi as the strike by protesting pilots entered the second day on Wednesday, even as the management was mulling the option of moving court against the stir. "Four flights have been cancelled today, two each from Delhi and Mumbai," Air India spokesperson said. All other international flights are operating, as a contingency plan has been put in...
11:46 AM, May 09, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said the cancellation of flights by Air India due to pilots' stir will not help the carrier in dealing with its troubles. "Excellent, well done, Air India. This is just the way you drag yourself out of the hole you find yourself in, cancel more flights," Omar said in a sarcastic tweet on the cancellations of flights. About 100 Air...
11:23 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: In a major bid to shore up its falling revenues, cash-strapped Air India has floated a global tender for the sale of six Boeing 737 freighters, virtually bringing the curtains down on its plan to launch a dedicated cargo service. The state-owned airline has already offered to lease out five of its eight Boeing 777-200 planes for 8-10 years and decided to go for sale and leaseback of...
05:17 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: With the first of the 27 Boeing 787 Dreamliners for Air India expected to arrive next month, the cash-strapped national carrier has decided to sell and leaseback seven of them and has started looking for bridge financing worth $230 million. While the first of these much-delayed planes would be delivered by the American manufacturer in January, the second one would come in March, the third in April and...
03:48 PM, Dec 24, 2011
