According to reports, the Boeing team is working on a new and improved design of Dreamliners. Air India has pressed the first of its modified Dreamliners into service as it redeploys the planes. Air India had grounded all six Dreamliners on January 17 after All Nipon Airlines of Japan reported battery overheating and fire in two of its aircraft in early January. ...
08:59 AM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Boeing on Friday said it will ready the remaining four grounded Dreamliners of Air India within this month and also deliver the seventh 787 to the national carrier by end of the month. After grounding all the six Dreamliners on January 17, Air India on Wednesday put two Dreamliners back into operations on the Delhi-Bangalore and Delhi-Kolkata sectors. The remaining four are under repair at the hangar here. "As...
09:50 PM, May 17, 2013
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...
01:06 PM, May 14, 2013
Kampala: A Boeing 787 operated by Ethiopian Airlines flew from Ethiopia to Kenya's capital Saturday, the first commercial flight since air safety authorities grounded the Dreamliners after incidents with smoldering batteries on two different planes in January. The Boeing 787 passenger jet arrived in Nairobi on Saturday afternoon after a two-hour trip from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, according to the Kenya airport website. The Dreamliner arrived at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta...
09:45 AM, Apr 28, 2013
The Dreamliner planes of Air India may fly again by mid-April 2013, with the airline expressing hope that a permanent solution to the battery-fire that led to the grounding of all the 50 Boeing 787s flying worldwide will be achieved by the month-end, official sources said on Monday. ...
09:34 PM, Mar 04, 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
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 in January. ...
01:08 PM, Feb 08, 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
The US government has stepped in to assure the public that Boeing's new 787 "Dreamliner" is safe to fly, even as it launched a comprehensive review to find out what caused a fire, a fuel leak and other worrisome incidents this week. "I believe this plane is safe, and I would have absolutely no reservations about boarding one of these planes and taking a flight," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood declared...
02:40 PM, Jan 12, 2013
National carrier Air India suffered an average net loss of Rs 404 crore per month for the March-October period of 2012. ...
01:46 AM, Dec 21, 2012
On the same day one of its new Dreamliners made an emergency landing because of a mechanical problem, Boeing said US regulators had ordered the entire fleet of 787 jets to be inspected for a possible fuel line problem. ...
09:17 AM, Dec 05, 2012
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
