By Santanu Choudhury
NEW DELHI--Air India Ltd. has yet to get delivery of its seventh
787 Dreamliner jet, scheduled for end-January, due to the global
grounding of and ban on delivery of such jets.
"We were scheduled to get one jet in end-January but that has
yet to happen," an executive told The Wall Street Journal late
Tuesday.
The airline is scheduled to get a few more Dreamliners by the
end of March, he said, but didn't elaborate.
Air India has six Dreamliners, which have been grounded since
Jan. 17 following orders from India's Directorate General of Civil
Aviation.
The DGCA directive followed a similar move by the U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration to ground all U.S.-registered Dreamliners
pending a safety review after two battery incidents hit the new
jet.
Air India--one of the first customers for the
Dreamliners--received its first 787 jet last September after a
delay of more than four years due to production problems at
Boeing.
The carrier ordered a total of 27 planes in January 2006. It has
plans to take delivery of six more jets by the end of December and
the remaining 15 through 2016.
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