Air India likely to get Dreamliner in December
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The delivery of the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Air India is understood to have been further pushed by two months to December this year. A report in moneycontrol.com said the ailing national carrier, which has placed orders for 27 of them way back in 2006, plans to fly them on medium-haul international routes.Singapore is likely to be the first foreign destination on which Air India plans to operate two of these Boeing-787s, which it expects to be delivered this calendar year itself, airline sources was quoted saying.Besides Singapore, they had said the other routes could be Hong Kong, Dubai, Osaka, Jakarta and Frankfurt. While the deliveries were earlier scheduled to begin from October this year, after being delayed by over two years, the sources said now the first delivery was only likely in December. The launch customer of the Dreamliners is Japan’s All Nippon Airways.The prime reason for this delay is that Air India now wants the aircraft to be fully certified by the Federal Aviation Authority in the US before being delivered to it.
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