Customers expecting delivery of 787s soon include the UK's Thomson Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
Both Thomson Travel and Norwegian Air Shuttle, a budget airline, have been told to expect delays and are making contingency plans.
The planemaker itself has already had to delay delivery of the plane to two European airlines - Thomson Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
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Indeed, in an effort apparently designed to calm concerns, one of Boeing's airline customers - Bjorn Kjos, chief executive of Norwegian Air Shuttle - has come out in defence of the plane, echoing the view that "minor problems" such as these should be expected.
Air travel is essential to shuttle fans between games, but most of Brazil's airports are already operating above their nominal capacity.
His wife had watched the launch of his mission but missed the landing, so it was great for her to see the shuttle in the air, he added.
Experts said protrusions on the otherwise smooth belly of the shuttle could disturb the air flow during re-entry, causing turbulence that raises temperatures on heatshield tiles downstream.
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The remains, recovered during recent searches for shuttle debris, had been taken to the National Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base to be identified.
One blurry image from an Air Force tracking station in New Mexico, taken about a minute before the shuttle disintegrated, shows what some observers have interpreted as a jagged leading edge on the left wing.
In 1996 Lockheed won competitions to build a replacement for the space shuttle, an infra-red satellite-warning system and a new rocket-launcher for the American air force.
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