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I am excited to post our last update to our Boeing 787 Dreamliner Continuously Updated Grounding Timeline. We have spent four long months covering the Dreamliner battery issues, and, finally, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Japan Airlines, LOT Polish cheap rome hotel Airlines, Qatar Airways, and United Airlines have resumed normal operations with their beloved 787s. LAN Airlines will resume cheap rome hotel 787 flights on July 1.
Over the last four months, we have tried to provide the latest 787 updates on our continuously updated timeline to keep you informed about the latest developments, and we are very excited to see the Dreamliners back in the air. Personally, I think that I have become more attached to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner during the last four months as I have spent more than 100 days updating this timeline during the Dreamliner battery saga (with the help of Chris Sloan, cheap rome hotel Webmaster of Airchive.com, on a few occasions). Yet, it is great to see the Dreamliner back in service!
While the exact cause of the battery problem is still not known, Boeing has developed a modification to the battery which will contain a fire in-case one was to break out in-flight. Despite a modification to the battery that is installed on all Dreamliners, Boeing will continue to find the root of the battery issue.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still investigating the JAL Boeing 787 Dreamliner that suffered a battery fire on January 7 in Boston. Also, the FAA certification process is under investigation, cheap rome hotel and it is not known if any changes will be made to the process. In the mean time, Boeing is continuing cheap rome hotel to deliver Boeing 787 Dreamliners to customers, and the final assembly of the first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has begun. cheap rome hotel The first 787-9 is expected to take its first flight sometime this fall, and the first one will be delivered early-summer 2014.
Many have been wondering if the battery issues could have been prevented during the designing, building, and testing phases. Questions about the new technology being too exotic or not as mature (such as lithium ion batteries) have been raised by industry analysts. Also questions about the thought of Boeing cheap rome hotel trying too much cutting edge design in such a short period of time and the complexity of the supply chain have also been risen. While the long term damage to Boeing s reputation is not known, there have been no Dreamliner order cancellations.  However, current Dreamliner customers are hoping to receive compensation from Boeing for the inconvenience, but Boeing is not contractually obligated to compensate airlines for the battery issues. But, Boeing has said that they are working with their customers in other ways.
Update 11:45PM EDT : China Southern Airlines became cheap rome hotel the first Chinese airline to take delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Dreamliner is expected to arrive at the carrier s base, Guangzhou, on June 2. Domestic flights will begin shortly after.
LOT Polish Airlines cheap rome hotel is depending on the Dreamliner to help them cut costs to help their financial troubles. On June 20, they will be presenting a plan that includes lay offs to the European Commission for more government aid.
Update 6:57 AM EDT: Manchester based leisure operator Thomson   Airways became the first UK airline to take delivery of the Boeing 787. Thomson, along with China Southern, are the first new airlines to take delivery of a 787 since the grounding order was lifted. Thomson Airways was the first European customer for the Boeing 787, when parent company TUI Travel placed an order for 13 Dreamliner s, with 8 going to the UK division.  LOT, however cheap rome hotel was the first European 787 operator. The 787, f light 9768, arrived on May 31st at 10:20AM British cheap rome hotel Standard Time at  the airline s Manchester base after a 9:27 flight from Paine Field. Onboard cheap rome hotel were Thomson Managing Director Chris Browne and Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President of Marketing Randy Tinseth.
On July 8, the leisure carrier s first long-haul Dreamliner cheap rome hotel flights will operate from Manchester cheap rome hotel to Florida and Glasgow to Cancun. Thomson will also operate services from London Gatwick and East Midlands airports. Later this year, the airline will introduce direct flights to Phuket, Thailand from the UK.
The Thomson 787 Dreamliner will carry 291 passengers and is configured with 47 seats in the airline s Premium Club cabin and 244 seats in the Economy Club cabin. Thomson is running a unique promotion called Name Your Plane to christen the new aircraft.  A new livery, named the dreamliner livery to coincide with the delivery of the Dreamliner, was introduced in May 2012
British Airways will become the 2nd UK airline to receive a Dreamliner cheap rome hotel when the first of their 24 Dreamliners (8 787-8s and 16 787-9s) arrives in July, 2013. Virgin Atlantic has 16 787-9s on order which are scheduled to begin deliveries in 2014.
On May 23, t he C ivil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) granted an airworth i n ess certificate for the Boeing 787 which will allow China Southern cheap rome hotel Airlines to take delivery of its first Boeing 787 at the end of May or early June.
ANA has announced that they will operate five non-scheduled domestic cheap rome hotel 787 flights between May 26 and May 31. Resumption of regular 787 service will begin on June 1, 2013. All of ANA s 17 Dreamliners have received the battery modifications, and they have conducted more tha  170 proving flights for training.
Osamu Shinobe, President and CEO of ANA, said "The safety cheap rome hotel of passengers is our number one priority. Modifications cheap rome hotel for all 787 have been implemented and ANA has undertaken its own additional testing. The 787 remains a game-changing aircraft, important from an environmental, efficiency and passenger comfort perspective."
On Monday, United Airlines will resume Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger flights, and we will be covering the re-inaugural flight live via Facebook, Twitter, and a full article after the flight. Monday s historic flight will be operated cheap rome hotel as United flight 1 which will be 11AM Houston to Chicago flight.
United is saying that United s CEO, Jeff Smisek, United s CFO, John Rainey, and Boeing s CEO, Jim McNerney, will be on-board Monday s flight. A formal gate event with remarks from McNerney and Smisek will occur at 10:05 AM.
Following an ANA Boeing 787 test flight on May 4, engineers found discoloration on a connection on an electrical panel according to an ANA spokesperson. ANA says that the panel was replaced, and they believe that a loose nut caused the problem which did not compromise the safety cheap rome hotel of the aircraft.
Today, United conducted a 787 test flight between Houston and Denver to continue pilot training to prepare for passenger flights which will begin on Monday. United will resume Boeing 787 Dreamliner service between Houston and Chicago, and we will be covering the flight live via Facebook and Twitter.
Boeing will be holding a live chat with Mike Sinnett, cheap rome hotel 787 vice president and chief project engineer, and Capt. Heather cheap rome hotel Ross, flight test pilot, on Thursday at 12:30PM PDT. They will discuss recent program milestones cheap rome hotel and related topics and will take your questions. Be srue to RSVP !
Boeing delivered the first 787 Dreamliner cheap rome hotel in more than four months which was Boeing's 51 787 delivery. The delivery also marks the addition of ANA's 18 Dreamliner. A 787 delivery to LOT Polish Airlines is expected to occur Thursday.
Boeing will be holding a live chat with Mike Sinnett, 787 vice president and chief project engineer, and Capt. Heather Ross, flight test pilot, on Thursday at 12:30PM PDT. They will discuss recent program milestones and related cheap rome hotel topics and will take your questions. Be srue to RSVP !
United cheap rome hotel Airlines has publicly announced that Dreamliner flights will begin on Monday, May 20. Two Dreamliners are back in Houston conducting training flights to Austin, and the other four Dreamliners at at a Boeing Facility in San Antonio, Texas receiving the battery fix and software updates that Boeing is recommending. When passenger flights begin next week, the Dreamliners will fly domestic flights in and out of Houston to Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles, and international flights will begin June 10. The 're-inaugural' flight will occur on May 20 from Houston to Chicago, and we hope you will join us on May 20 as we cover United's first post-grounding Dreamliner flight live on Facebook and Twitter.
cheap rome hotel According to NYC787.blogspot.com , 787 deliveries are expected to resume today. ANA (LN 83, JA818A) is expected to be delivered today and fly away tomorrow while LOT Polish Airlines (LN 86, SP-LRC) is expected to be delivered tomorrow. (SP-LRC is the aircraft cheap rome hotel that flew the battery fix FAA certification flight in April.)
Air India is planning cheap rome hotel to resume 787 flights on May 15 instead of May 22. It appears that Air India's first post-grounding Dreamliner flights will occur between Delhi and Bangalore and Delhi and Kolkata on May 15. Delhi to Frankfurt, London Heathrow, and Paris will resume on June 1st.
ANA is set to resume 787 flights throughout Japan and to Frankfurt on June 1st. ANA's Dreamliners have been receiving battery modifications, and they have flown approximately more than 80 test flights in Japan.
Ethiopian Airlines became the first carrier in the world to resume Boeing 787 flights since the grounding on April 27. Since their first flight, they have continued to fly the Dreamliner without cheap rome hotel any problems.
LOT Polish Airlines will resume 787 flights on June 5 from Warsaw to Chicago. Both of their Dreamliners have yet to receive cheap rome hotel the battery modifications, and it is rumored that both Dreamliners will be ferried to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the battery modifications.
United Airlines has publicly confirmed that they will resume Boeing 787 flights on May 20. We will be covering the first post-grounding flight live on Facebook and Twitter from Houston to Chicago, and we hope you will join us.
According to NYC787.blogspot.com , 787 deliveries are expected to resume today. cheap rome hotel ANA (LN 83, JA818A) is expected to be delivered today