‎BOEING RECEIVES PROVISIONAL APPROVAL FOR DELIVERY OF 787 DREAMLINER‎

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The American aircraft manufacturer Boeing has received provisional permission from the American aviation authority FAA to be able to deliver the 787 Dreamliner again, sources report to Bloomberg news agency. The 787 Dreamliner has not been delivered for almost two years due to construction defects.‎


‎The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has approved Boeing's plans to inspect and repair the construction defects in the aircraft frame, insiders say. The construction defect was in the joining of parts of the hull of the boxes. At about twenty places, holes were found at the time that had not been properly filled.‎

‎Inspect and approve‎
‎The FAA's approval does not immediately mean that sales of the aircraft type will pick up again. Boeing must first make the required repairs. Then the FAA still has to inspect and approve each aircraft separately. According to the sources, Boeing is aiming to resume deliveries of the aircraft around August 8.‎

‎ If the planes can be delivered again, Boeing may be able to make up for previous financial damage from having to ground the planes. In the second quarter of this year, Boeing achieved a sharply lower profit than a year earlier, partly because of the production problems with the 787 Dreamliner.‎

‎Earlier this month, Stan Deal, Boeing's commercial director, said the planemaker plans to ramp up production. With the delivery of the Dreamliners, the stock goes down, he said during the important farnborough air show in the United Kingdom.‎

‎There, Boeing won more new orders for the first time than rival Airbus, which did much better for years. Boeing won orders for 297 aircraft, Airbus for only 85 aircraft. Boeing also expects global aviation to need more than 2 million new employees over the next two decades, as its fleet of airliners will double as the pandemic recedes.‎

‎KLM‎
‎Due to the production problems, there are quite a few finished aircraft waiting at the manufacturer's factory site, including some examples for KLM of the type 787-10. KLM now has eighteen 787s (thirteen 787-9s and five 787-10s, ed.) and ten more 787-10s will be added.‎

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