Airline news
787 Deliveries Halted As Probe Focuses On Battery
US and Japanese aviation safety officials finished an initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on Friday as Boeing said it was halting deliveries until the battery concerns were resol...
Airlines Rearrange Flights After 787s Grounded
Airlines scrambled on Thursday to rearrange flights as Europe, Japan and India joined the United States in grounding Boeing 787 Dreamliners while battery-related problems are investigated. The lightweight, mainly carbon-...
European Safety Regulator Grounds 787s
European safety regulators will follow the United States in ordering the grounding of Boeing 787 Dreamliners amid battery safety concerns, a spokesman said early on Thursday. The European Aviation Safety Agency typically...
New Berlin Airport Unlikely To Open Before 2015
Berlin’s delay-hit new airport is not likely to open until 2015, the airport’s technical chief was quoted as saying, more than three years later than original plans envisaged for what was meant as the capital...
LOT Polish Airlines Makes Aviation History With Dreamliner Inaugural From Chicago To Warsaw Today
LOT’s Dreamliner has 18 seats in Elite Club (business class), 21 in Premium Club (premium economy) plus 213 seats in economy class. LOT Polish Airlines will inaugurate new 787 Dreamliner nonstop service from Chicago to Wa...
Boeing Overtakes Airbus In Annual Sales Race
Boeing re-captured the crown as the world’s largest maker of passenger jets last year, overtaking Airbus for the first time in a decade, only to face new problems on Thursday with the grounding of 787s over battery...
