Boeing, AI to meet on compensation

Mumbai: A high-level Boeing team will arrive in New Delhi this week to discuss outstanding issues, including compensation, with national carrier Air India after the aerospace giant announced a further six-month delay for the first flight and initial deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner programme.
The team will be led by Dinesh Keskar, senior vice-president, sales, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. With Boeing’s revised schedule now pegging the deliveries for the last quarter of 2009, Air India’s growth plans have taken a hit.
“The revised delays announced by Boeing will have a significant impact on our growth plan. We have initiated the procedure of computing compensation details and will be filing the same with Boeing,” said Jitender Bhargava, executive director, corporate communications, Air India.
The carrier had, till late, refused to seek compensation from Boeing.
13/04/08 Manisha Singhal/Business Standard

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