{"id":93100,"date":"2021-09-06T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/?p=93100"},"modified":"2021-09-07T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T21:46:51","slug":"boeings-787-dreamliners-may-remain-undelivered-until-late-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2021\/09\/boeings-787-dreamliners-may-remain-undelivered-until-late-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s 787 Dreamliners may remain undelivered until late October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boeing\u2019s 787 Dreamliner jets, which have been in delivery suspension since July, are expected to remain halted until at least late October.<\/p>\n

According to sources who spoke to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), <\/em>the US planemaker is still yet to convince regulators to inspect the aircraft.<\/p>\n

When deliveries were first paused<\/a>, Boeing expected the defects to only cause a three-week further delay, but now it’s feared the uncertain timestamp may increase airline cancellations.<\/p>\n

On 2 August, Boeing met with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to persuade the regulator to inspect the jets in a more efficient method than nose-to-tail checks.<\/p>\n

Boeing\u2019s quality assurance specialist told the FAA it planned to show three jets that represented how over 100 aircraft \u2013 awaiting delivery \u2013 were manufactured, according to sources.<\/p>\n

But a Boeing engineer told the regulator that was not correct and the three jets would not reflect the others.<\/p>\n

This led to the FAA reporting internal company disagreements over the sample size of jets, and now Boeing has expanded it to 10 aircraft samples for a broader reflection of the inventory.<\/p>\n

An FAA spokesperson said the regulator would not accept the proposal to inspect \u201cuntil our safety experts are satisfied\u201d.<\/p>\n

One hundred and six Dreamliners across numerous airlines have been awaiting delivery, impeding on around US$25 billion sent to Boeing as most of the payment is made when the jet arrives.<\/p>\n

Boeing said it is committed to working with the FAA to resolve the issue and said it would remain transparent during the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoeing wants and expects our teammates to speak freely, ask questions and present different perspectives about very complex and technical issues,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n

In early July, the FAA discovered another new manufacturing issue on Boeing 787s during the system-wide inspection of the planemaker\u2019s shimming process.<\/p>\n

The regulator found a defect near the nose on certain Dreamliners in the company\u2019s undelivered inventory, which led to the pause in deliveries.<\/p>\n

From Boeing\u2019s last order report in July, two unidentified customers placed an order for five 787s in total, adding to the already high backlog.<\/p>\n

The news followed a similar issue less than a year before at the time in September 2020 when two manufacturing issues were found in fuselage sections of eight Dreamliners.<\/p>\n

Chicago-based Boeing found that the defects could cause the jet to fail and deteriorate quickly under extreme conditions \u2013 which led to the eight aircraft being removed from service.<\/p>\n

These continuous issues may lead to mass cancellations from Boeing customers, especially if some take advantage of the period where no penalty will be imposed on ending a contract \u2013 typically within a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When deliveries were first paused, Boeing expected the defects to only cause a three-week further delay, but now it’s feared the uncertain timestamp may increase airline cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3418,"featured_media":86374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93108,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93100\/revisions\/93108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}