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7. Qatar Airways unveils first Dreamliner
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The first commercial flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Australia has been postponed
following the grounding of the aircraft worldwide.
Qatar Airways was due to make the first passenger flight of a Dreamliner to Australia on Friday,
with a flight from Doha to Perth.
But the airline grounded its 787s on January 17, citing the US Federal Aviation Administrations
warning over fire risks on board the revolutionary new jet Qatar has since confirmed it has
postponed the launch of Dreamliner flights to Australia.
With investigators yet to identify the cause of the incidents, no new date for Qatar’s inaugural
Dreamliner flight to Australia has been set.
Airlines around the world grounded their 787 Dreamliners on January 16.
The action was prompted by a battery incident during an All Nippon Airways flight that resulted
in an emergency landing in Japan. This came after an earlier incident on an ANA 787 on the
ground in Boston.
The Dreamliner’s troubles have roiled the airline industry. Safety regulators and industry
experts are warning that investigations into the cause of a series of small fires on the plane
could take months or even a year.
The grounding has forced hundreds of flight cancellations worldwide, in the United States, India,
South America and beyond.
The uncertainty over the Dreamliner has raised serious questions for Boeing, with deliveries of
its signature aircraft stalled and airlines awaiting the futuristic plane. It was set to play a major
role in their growth.
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker said the airline was working with Boeing to
“restore customer confidence in the 787?.
“Qatar Airways will resume 787 operations when we are clear that the aircraft meets the full
requirements of the Airworthiness Directive and our standards,” he said.
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9. Qatar currently has five Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners in its fleet.
Amid the crisis, Qantas announced it had cancelled one of its 15 Dreamliner orders for Jetstar.
The airline is still expected to take delivery of its first 787 later this year.
Further testing still has not found the cause of a battery fire on board the Dreamliner in Boston,
according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
In a statement released on Sunday, the regulator said “no obvious anomalies were found” in its
initial investigation of an undamaged battery aboard the plane and that a more detailed
examination would follow.
The NTSB’s preliminary finding, along with the absence of any reported progress in
determining a root cause of the auxiliary power unit’s battery fire, underscores that the safety
investigation and the grounding of the 787s may drag on longer than Boeing had hoped.
Oliver McGee, an aerospace and mechanical engineer who was a deputy assistant secretary of
transportation under President Bill Clinton and a former consultant to Boeing, described the
challenge facing the investigators as a “megascale engineering puzzle.”
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Qatar Airways unveils first Dreamliner
In the same week it was named the world’s best airline, Qatar Airways unveiled its first Boeing
787 Dreamliner jet. The airline has 60 of the new planes on order. Qatar’s first Dreamliner will
fly the Doha to London route.
Dreamliner becoming a nightmare
All Nippon Airways plan to cancel at least 379 flights due to the grounding of Boeing’s
Dreamliner.
Dreamliner problems may also delay Airbus’ new A350
23 JanEuropean aircraft maker Airbus is wary that problems which have grounded rival Boeing’s
787 Dreamliner could also delay the commercial launch of the A350 airliner that Airbus hopes
will get it back into the long-haul game.
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11. Boeing Dreamliner fire ‘an unprecedented event’
US government investigators said on Thursday they could not yet explain what caused a
25 Jan
potentially catastrophic battery fire aboard a Boeing 787 that forced the grounding of
Dreamliners around the world.
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