Boeing will deliver 787 Dreamliner to AI this year

New Delhi: Aircraft manufacturing major Boeing will deliver the first of its premium 787 Dreamliner aircraft to Air India (AI) this year. “Deliveries will occur this year and it will happen with proper settlement,” Dinesh Keskar, president, Boeing India, told Hindustan Times. Keskar said he would
formally announce the date of deliveries at the Aero India show to be held in Bangalore in the second week of February.
“We know the answer (when the first plane would be delivered to AI) but we wanted to find a good platform. We have just announced that we will deliver the 787 to Japan’s All Nippon Airlines in the third quarter this year,” Keskar said.
Keskar would soon be meeting AI chairman to inform him about the delivery schedule.
A miffed AI management had slapped a notice on the Seattle-based aviation giant demanding compensation of about $850 million for the persistent delay on deliveries of planes. AI had placed an order for 27 B-787 Dreamliners.
According to the original schedule, the first such aircraft was to be delivered in September 2008 followed by one each in the subsequent months.
By March 2011, Boeing was scheduled to have delivered 18 of these aircraft to AI.
30/01/11 Tushar Srivastava/Hindustan Times

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