Government owned Air India is ready to take delivery of yet another Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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They supply the superlight carbon fiber wings for the Boeing 787, for instance (NYSE: BA).
It is revamping its fleet with new, fuel-efficient planes like the Airbus A330 and Boeing 787.
As a result, the FAA ordered all operators of U.S.-registered Boeing 787 to cease operations.
The most important civilian application so far has been in the new Boeing 787, the so-called Dreamliner.
Plans include adding Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets by 2015 to fly to routes to China, Japan, and Australia.
Boeing (BA) said today Etihad Airways has ordered 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner airplaces, and two Boeing 777 Freighters.
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The US airline regulator has approved a plan to redesign the lithium-ion batteries of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
United Airlines, which has six Boeing 787 aircraft, is the only U.S. airline to take delivery of the Dreamliner so far.
British Airways plans to order 18 more Boeing 787 Dreamliners to replace some of the carrier's aging 747 jumbo jets.
Soon afterwards the FAA ordered all operators of U.S.-registered Boeing 787 to stop flying the jets, and international authorities quickly followed suit.
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Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan has authorized passenger airlines to resume flights of Boeing 787 Dreamliners in the country starting Friday, authorities said.
Before further flight, operators of U.S.-registered, Boeing 787 aircraft must demonstrate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the batteries are safe.
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There's no better catalyst for change than competition, lately in the form of new models: the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787.
Chief executive James Hogan said its order of 41 Boeing 787 Dreamliners was not under threat following the plane's recent battery problems.
On Wednesday night, Chile-based LAN Airlines said it was temporarily grounding its three Boeing 787 aircraft in compliance with the FAA's recommendation.
Japan's All Nippon Airways has resumed commercial flights of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for the first time since the planes were grounded over safety fears.
All of the 50 Boeing 787 planes in service were grounded in mid-January after their lithium-ion batteries emitted smoke on several separate occasions.
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Japan's transport ministry has launched an investigation into what caused two fuel leaks on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet operated by Japan Airlines.
United Airlines on Thursday removed the grounded Boeing 787 from its flight schedules at least until 5 June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights.
The lithium-ion batteries installed on the Boeing 787 are inherently unsafe, says Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and owner of electric car maker Tesla.
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This GE plant makes highly complex jet aircraft engines like the GEnX used in the Boeing 787 and the GE90 on the 777.
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Chinese Eastern Airlines canceled a mammoth order for 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners this week in favor of the much smaller 737 aircraft, the company said.
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Investigators remain stumped on the cause of burning batteries aboard two Boeing 787 Dreamliners, fueling pessimism about how quickly the grounded aircraft can resume flying.
The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner has just landed in Washington, DC.
Running a Fortune 500 company as its CEO is arguably much more complex than piloting a Boeing 787 Dreamliner or an F-16 for that matter.
Japan Airlines said that a fire broke out in one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners, shortly after it landed in Boston, following a flight from Tokyo.
"While there are concerns of the impact of the suspended use of the Boeing 787 aircraft since January 2013, business has been robust, " Japan Airlines said.
Japan's All Nippon Airways, meanwhile, said it cancelled a domestic flight to Tokyo on Wednesday after a computer wrongly indicated there was a problem with the Boeing 787's brakes.
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