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  After four months deliveries have resumed today at the congested Boeing 787 Dreamliner centre at Everett.

Update This post was based on what has now been admitted by the NTSB to have been a misleading docket. A new post dealing with the NTSB’s dishonest abuse of language and process has been posted here.

  Japan has seen a massive apology campaign by Boeing over the 787 groundings appear in its newspapers as Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways firm up on their plans for a full return to service by their Dreamliners.

There are airlines that press on regardless and play the roll of the dice when it comes to significant doubts about safety issues, and there are those that say “Not with our passengers.”

  The only time stamped thing announced by China Southern about its future services to Australia is that Sydney-Guangzhou will get flights by its limited fleet of five A380s from 27 October. But that will have two different yet interesting effects on Qantas and Cathay Pacific.

This brings aviation to a very unwelcome place. The Boeing 787′s certification is deficient because it doesn’t even meet Boeing’s own standards for the use of lithium-ion technology by the aviation industry at large.

As expected the FAA has approved the super fix box solution to the battery problems of unknown cause on grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners, and outlined the steps airlines and other national safety regulators will need to take for flights to resume.

There are consistent reports in the US that the FAA is about to lift the orders that grounded the Dreamliners three months ago after lithium ion battery failures in a Japan Airlines and an All Nippon Airways 787.

With the very well informed speculation about China Southern bringing an A380 service to Sydney resurfacing, it is worth keeping in mind that it could also surprise with Dreamliner 787s to Australia this year.