AIR INDIA TO FINALLY GET ITS FIRST BOEING DREAMLINER ON SEPT 8

New Delhi,India : Air India's long wait for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is finally over, with the first of these long-haul planes set to arrive in New Delhi on September 8 (Saturday).

Air India was the second world carrier to have placed orders for this aircraft, but delays in clearing of the agreement further postponed the delivery to the state-owned carrier.Sources said the national carrier - which had placed orders for 27 of these aircraft six years ago - would get its first Dreamliner on Saturday, which is to be followed by the delivery of two more within the next few weeks.

For the next few weeks, the Dreamliner would be operated on the domestic sectors, including Delhi-Mumbai, to enable the pilots and crew get accustomed to its landings and take-offs.

Sources added that the fate of the Delay Compensation Agreement, which was cleared by the Union Cabinet in August and is being fine-tuned by the Union Law Ministry, is still not clear.

The agreement, supposed to be signed between the airline and Boeing, is to finalise the compensation to be given by the US aircraft major for almost four-year delay in deliveries.

06/09/2012  :  PTI / Business Today.

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