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AI’s first Dreamliner arrives after 4-year wait

AI’s first Dreamliner arrives after 4-year wait

September 08, 2012 | 12:00 AM

 
Air hostesses walk next to an Air India’s Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner upon its arrival at the New Delhi airport yesterday. Air India took delivery of its first Boeing 787 commercial wide body plane on Thursday at Boeing Company’s final assembly plant in Charleston in South Carolina after months-long dispute between the airline and the manufacturer over compensation for a four-year production delay. Air India’s Dreamliner is equipped with 18 business class and 238 economy class seats. The plane can fly up to 16,000km non-stop. It is the first of the 27 Dreamliners Air India has purchased

September 08, 2012 | 12:00 AM