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
New Delhi: US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has agreed to compensate Air India for the grounding of the Dreamliner aircraft due to battery-fire incidents, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. Minister of State for Civil Aviation KC Venugopal replied in affirmative when he was asked whether Boeing had agreed to pay the compensation to Air India. He, however, said the quantum of compensation could not be disclosed in accordance with the...
05:31 PM, May 02, 2013
Tokyo: Boeing Co on Monday began installing reinforced lithium ion batteries on five grounded 787 jets owned by launch customer All Nippon Airways, starting a process that should make the first commercial Dreamliners ready to fly again in about a week. Teams of Boeing engineers are working on the ANA jets at four airports in Japan, including Tokyo's Haneda and Narita hubs, Ryosei Nomura, a spokesman for the carrier said....
09:48 AM, Apr 22, 2013
State carrier Air India will seek compensation in cash from Boeing for losses caused by the grounding of its 787 Dreamliners, rather than discounts on future purchases, a senior government source said on Wednesday. The statement increases pressure for cash compensation after a person familiar with the intentions of All Nippon Airways said earlier that it would prefer a direct refund, rather than future discounts. ...
09:02 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Boeing Co got approval from US transport regulators on Tuesday to start testing a redesigned battery for the 787 Dreamliner, putting it one step closer to getting the troubled airplane back into regular service. ...
06:28 AM, Mar 13, 2013
The grounding of Air India's Dreamliner fleet has hampered the much awaited proposal of direct flight connectivity between India and Australia, a top Australian diplomat has said. Direct flight service is essential between the two countries as in and out-bound tourist traffic is increasing with each passing year, said Lachlan Strahan, the Deputy Head of Mission at Australian High Commission in New Delhi. ...
12:30 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Boeing is liable to compensate state-run Air India for the grounding of 787 Dreamliner passenger jets on safety issues, Indian aviation minister Ajit Singh said on Friday. ...
02:56 AM, Jan 19, 2013
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
After failing to find any lessor for its five Boeing 777s, the debt-laden Air India is now planning an outright sale of these aircraft to raise up to $ 450 million (about Rs 2,500 crore), airline sources said. The state-run airline will soon appoint a consultant to help it find a suitable buyer besides taking the assistance from Boeing on the issue, they said. The move is to trim over...
07:49 PM, Nov 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: State-owned Air India risks losing a $5.8 billion government bailout, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Thursday, as industrial action by pilots disrupted flights for a fourth day. The national airline, which has been surviving on taxpayers' money, is scheduled to get $1.3 billion in fresh equity from the government in the current fiscal year but this is linked to its performance. "Pilots need to understand that...
09:30 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: State-run carrier Air India has invited offers from banks to raise up to $800 million via external commercial borrowing and bridge financing, two documents posted on the company's website showed. A bridge financing of up to $500 million will be used to fund its purchases of four Boeing Dreamliners, while the ailing national carrier plans to raise another $300 million through overseas debt. The documents, posted on Air...
05:41 PM, 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
New Delhi: A day after its lenders approved its debt restructuring plan, Air India on Tuesday decided to go in for sale-and-leaseback option for Boeing 787 Dreamliners instead of their outright purchase, as its Board reviewed the latest financial position of the cash-strapped company. The Board, which reviewed Air India's operations and the implementation of its turnaround programme and Financial Restructuring Plan, also decided to lease out excess capacity of...
07:45 AM, Nov 30, 2011
