Some increasingly serious questions about the much delayed Boeing 787 Dreamliner are going unanswered.
So far Qantas, the largest airline customer for the ‘plastic fantastic’ jet, isn’t adding its voice to new concerns about the Dreamliner, but other carriers in recent days haven’t been so reticent.
Airlines in China and Mexico are expressing alarm that the super [...]
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Qantas bites tongue over its Dreamliner nightmare
March 18, 2009 – 12:52 pm
Gone at last. The biggest looser in the Qantas fleet
January 21, 2009 – 7:28 am
The last of the delay prone ‘classic’ era Qantas jumbo jets, a Boeing 747-338 left Sydney for the desert scrap heap at Marana, Arizona, last night. Its departure, a mere 45 minutes late, is believed to have been held up by air traffic control delays.
The jet built in 1985 spent much of its final year [...]
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