Seattle-based Boeing will also be flying its new 787 Dreamliner passenger plane at the show.
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By the 1990s, the airline had more than 50 Boeing and Airbus jets flying to 39 cities in 20 countries.
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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There are only 50 Dreamliner wide bodies flying worldwide, but Boeing has orders for several hundred more.
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"Clearly, I haven't been at Boeing for six years now, but I will assure you that the 787 is going to change the flying experience again, just like every other Boeing airplane, " he said at the Detroit auto show.
Boeing hopes the fix could allow Dreamliners to be back flying by mid-April.
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Like the 787, the Boeing 747 had a lot of issues when it started flying in 1970, aviation consultant Michael Boyd said.
If distributed manufacturing and snap-together assembly were really such bad ideas, its American rival Boeing would not have recently adopted the same approach, flying in sub-assemblies to its Seattle base from as far away as Japan and Italy.
In 1995 he sold the German bit of his company to Lufthansa Condor, a subsidiary of the German airline, giving him enough capital to buy a small fleet of Boeing planes, another selling-point over rivals still flying oily Tupolevs.
The Jet2.com Boeing had flown from Crete on 14 September last year and was flying at 5, 000ft.
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Rusdi said Malindo would start flying between Malaysia and Indonesia with a fleet of 12 new Boeing 737 planes in May, before expanding to other cities in Southeast Asia.
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.
"We understand how frustrating and disappointing this news will be for those customers looking forward to flying on the 787 Dreamliner, we are equally as disappointed that Boeing was not able to confirm a delivery date for us but unfortunately these circumstances are out of our control, " said Thomson in a statement.
Snapping at Boeing's heels is its arch rival Airbus, which is expected to start test flying its A350 XWB later this year.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Polish national airline LOT said Tuesday its Boeing 787s, which had been grounded for months due to battery problems, will resume flying in June.
Because of the materials used in construction - carbon fibre rather than aluminium - as well as new engines and aerodynamics, Boeing says the Dreamliner is about 20% more fuel efficient than similarly-sized models flying today.
If Boeing manages to complete each step in the process, it will get its 787 up and flying again.
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The rebuke was for comments made by Boeing officials at a media briefing in Tokyo, related to plans to get the grounded Dreamliner flying again.
In that way, Boeing was able to make sure that the pieces that other companies made would fit together well because Boeing engineers understood what each part would do and how they would interact when the plane was flying.
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"We're always working to ensure that our products offer the airlines of the world the most modern and robust technologies available to provide their passengers with an exceptional flying experience, " said Mike Sinnett, senior chief engineer of Airplane Systems for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Boeing is also considering how to police the airways - and prevent total pandemonium - if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.
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Although riding on a Boeing jetliner is statistically much safer than lying in your bed at home, few members of the flying public are conversant with the thousands of safeguards built into aviation hardware and training procedures that have resulted in no domestic jetliner crashes for over a decade.
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Early sales campaigns for Boeing rival Airbus A380 super-jumbo envisioned cocktail lounges, casinos--even staterooms--making flying more like a luxury cruise.
Other large air freighters already flying include the Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76, the U.S.-made Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and, largest of them all, the Antonov An-225 -- also Russian.
Planes such as Boeing 777s (of which it is the biggest buyer) and Airbus A380s (ditto: 15 are already flying and 90 are on order) can fly anywhere in the world from Dubai.
Boeing is still waiting for approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on potential fixes to begin test-flying the 787, but it continues to receive orders for the Dreamliner, with Air Berlin announcing an order for 15 units on Tuesday.
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