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News: All Nippon Airways Dreamliner flights to renew in June

October 8, 2016 • Alicia
All Nippon Airways has confirmed it is going to resume Boeing Dreamliner flights in June after the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau issued a revised Technical Circular Directive for the plane. ANA is the biggest operator of the aircraft on the earth, with a fleet of 17 Boeing 787s. Ethiopia Airlines earlier became the primary carrier to come to the Dreamliner to service, with commercial flights beginning over the weekend. Boeing was working with carriers to exchange potentially faulty batteries. A series of incidents affecting the batteries saw the Dreamliner grounded in January, with Boeing engineers working “around the clock” to repair the issue over the last weeks. Some 50 Dreamliners are presently in service world wide, which every having to be modified by a consultant Boeing team before it would...
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News: Boeing begins installing Dreamliner battery fix

May 1, 2016 • admin
Boeing has begun replacing batteries on its fleet of grounded 787 Dreamliners following approval of the modified design from the Federal Aviation Authority. All 50 aircraft presently in service worldwide has been grounded since earlier this year following a chain of onboard incidents. Production of the aircraft has also been halted at Boeing worked to deal with safety concerns. All Nippon Airways, which operates 17 of the planes, the most important fleet on the planet, can have the batteries replaced on its aircraft first. The carrier must anticipate approval from various regulators before they are able to begin to fly the planes commercially. The FAA, which approved the battery design last week, has said that it’ll issue a last directive at the Dreamliner this week. The plane is the 1st...
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