New Delhi: Aircraft manufacturer Boeing today said it is going to focus all its energy to further improve the reliability of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Dinesh Keskar, senior vice-president (sales, Asia-Pacific and India), Boeing said, “W are going to focus all our energy to make things right. We have a team in place here which monitors the operations and we are in touch with them. We develop plans together as to how we are going to fix it and I think we are already in that mode.”
“Today, worldwide we are at 97 per cent reliability. We are not pleased with that, we will improve that and we will put resource to do that and Air India is no exception”, he added. He clarified that it is a safe airplane and has never caused concern as relates to the safety of passengers.
The Dreamliner has been facing technical glitches, which started with cases of its battery catching fire in January forcing airlines across the world, including Air India, to ground their entire fleet of the aircraft for a few months.
30/10/13 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Business Standard
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Dinesh Keskar, senior vice-president (sales, Asia-Pacific and India), Boeing said, “W are going to focus all our energy to make things right. We have a team in place here which monitors the operations and we are in touch with them. We develop plans together as to how we are going to fix it and I think we are already in that mode.”
“Today, worldwide we are at 97 per cent reliability. We are not pleased with that, we will improve that and we will put resource to do that and Air India is no exception”, he added. He clarified that it is a safe airplane and has never caused concern as relates to the safety of passengers.
The Dreamliner has been facing technical glitches, which started with cases of its battery catching fire in January forcing airlines across the world, including Air India, to ground their entire fleet of the aircraft for a few months.
30/10/13 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Business Standard
