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Air India restarts 787 operations Wednesday
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 May, 2013
Air India will Wednesday resume domestic commercial operations of the
reinstated Boeing-787 Dreamliner and international operations by May 22.
As
earlier reported by agency on May 9, the first flight will be between
Delhi and Bangalore and the second service will be between Delhi and
Kolkata.
The airline had received the aviation regulator,
Directorate General of Civil Aviation's (DGCA) final airworthiness
certificate May 8, after one of Air India's Dreamliners, was modified by
a Boeing team which is in India to install a new set of battery systems
approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
"The
first commercial flight of the Dreamliner will start tomorrow. Out of
six (787 Dreamliners), two have been already modified and all
operational regulatory requirements have been complied with," Civil
Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told reporters in New Delhi.
According to
Singh, the remaining Dreamliners would become operational by month end
and that the airline will receive additional eight 787s from Boeing by
the year end.
Air India had booked 27 Boeing-787s in a mega-deal
in 2006. Air India is supposed to get five more planes in 2014, six in
2015 and three in 2016.
Singh further said that the airline will
operate to new destinations on the 787s starting with Delhi-Birmingham
and Delhi-Sydney from August, Delhi-Rome from October and Delhi-Moscow
from next year.
Earlier, the airline was operating its six B-787s from Delhi to Bangalore, Chennai, Dubai, Paris and Frankfurt.
The
Dreamliner has been instrumental in replacing the fuel-guzzling
Boeing-777 on some international routes, thus saving on costs and
increasing efficiency.
In January, the DGCA grounded all six Air
India B-787 aircraft after an FAA directive to stop operations of all 50
such planes delivered so far to various airlines.
Though Air
India did not face any technical problems with the new aircraft, other
airlines which operate the B-787 reported the aircraft's battery system
overheating.
The batteries are part of an electrical system that replaces many mechanical and hydraulic ones common in previous jets.
The
aircraft is unique as it is made of composite materials. Its
newly-developed engine and advanced flight technologies make it highly
fuel-efficient. The plane can fly up to 16,000 km non-stop.
Apart
from Air India, Ethiopian Airlines, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways,
LAN (Chile), LOT (Poland), Qatar Airways and United Airlines fly the
aircraft.
There are orders for about 800 B-787s in the pipeline.
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