Boeing To Announce Yet ANOTHER Dream liner Delay
To anyone at Boeing who may have snickered when rival Airbus experienced a number of delays in bringing its high-profile A380 superjumbo to market... one imagines if you didn't believe in karma then, you do now.The Wall Street Journal reports the American plane maker is poised to announce yet another delay to its troubled 787 Dream liner program, due to the recent strike by workers represented by the International Association of Machinists. Citing unnamed sources, the WSJ says Boeing will announce later this month first deliveries of the composite-bodied jet will be pushed to summer of 2010, with the possibility the aircraft's first flight may not happen until late 2009. "There is no question" the 787 will be delayed further, one source told the WSJ. "The real issue right now is that Boeing wants to make sure it has a believable date before going back to the customers with more bad news." Boeing's latest official statement about the Dream liner called for deliveries to start in the third quarter of 2009.
If the latest report is true -- and there's nothing to suggest it isn't -- the latest delay would mean the first 787 will delivered to launch customer All Nippon Airlines at least two years later than Boeing had originally hoped. Touted by Boeing as a revolutionary, highly-efficient airliner for a environmentally-conscious world, for the moment the Dreamliner has instead become the company's largest embarrassment since the Darleen Druyun fiasco.
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