Air India Backing Out on Boeing 787 Delivery?
First 787 Takeoff In Charleston SC
Air India’s planned visit to Boeing’s North Charleston plant to ‘celebrate’ the airline’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner made in South Carolina has been called off.
The financially struggling airline officially took delivery of their first 787 back in March and the first one built at Boeing’s North Charleston took its first flight this past week…also to be delivered to Air India.
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‘”The plan is [for AI execs to] no longer to stop in South Carolina for the first Air India 787 delivery,” Wilson Chow, a Boeing spokesman, said in an email Thursday. “We are still on track to deliver the Everett-built plane to Air India.”‘
Air India has 27 Dreamliners on order but the 787 has been beset by over 3 years of delays. The state-run airline is bleeding money and rumors have been rampant of a shutdown if the government does not step in again (it has already bailed out the carrier to the tune of $5.8 billion) with financial assistance.
Boeing says the celebratory event will take place at the end of June.
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This doesn’t surprise me. That airline is a money pit and should go under…
It’s so difficult for airlines to be buying new planes… i still think Delta has it right with them buying old planes and keeping proper maintenance on them.
New planes are very expensive and for airlines it is difficult to buy new ones.
Keeping older planes isn’t always the answer.
The new aircraft coming out are so much more fuel efficient it’s not even close. But the other side of the coin is new planes cost a boatload.
It just depends on each carriers situation and debt load.