September 6, 2016
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has estimated that it will take three years to overhaul all 100 Rolls-Royce Trent engines that equip its Boeing 787 fleet, to correct a turbine blade corrosion problem that has already forced the airline to ground some of its high-time aircraft for repair. The turbine corrosion problem led to three engine failures earlier this year.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3770003/Japanese-airline-replace-100-engines-new-Boeing-787-Dreamliner-jets-corrosion-saw-fan-blades-crack-mid-air.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ana-rolls-royce-hldg-parts-idUSKCN1150OZ
A United Airlines Boeing 787 will make its first appearance at the Minneapolis airport this week.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2016/08/31/boeing-787-dreamliner-minneapolis-msp.html
Uzbekistan Airways has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
http://atwonline.com/airframes/uzbekistan-airways-takes-first-boeing-787
Singapore Airlines' low-cost subsidiary, Scoot has taken delivery of its 12th Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/scoot-dedicates-its-12th-boeing-787-dreamliner-aircraft-to-india/articleshow/53948227.cms
Complicating Boeing's reduced revenues from 777 widebody orders, has been a set of production snarls at the Everett facility, which union workers have blamed on a faulty robotic fuselage manufacturing system, that was intended to speed the installation of rivets.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-struggle-with-777-assembly-robots-adds-to-everett-production-snarl/
Angola's government has approved a loan to help the state's flagship carrier take delivery of its third Boeing 777-300ER.
http://www.macauhub.com.mo/en/2016/09/02/angola-takes-on-loan-to-pay-for-third-boeing-777/
A pair of Pakistani sisters has become the first pair of sisters to simultaneously fly the Boeing 777 airliner at the same time, flying on behalf of Pakistan International Airlines.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistani-pilot-sisters-flying-boeing-777-aircraft-same-time-maryam-erum-masood-a7219466.html
Thai Airways International has taken delivery of its first Airbus A350-900.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/1075141/first-thai-airbus-a350-lands-at-suvarnabhumi
Airbus' first A350-1000, a stretched model with an all-new wing intended to compete with Boeing's 777 airliner, has completed its trip through the paint-hangar, and remains on track for first flight by the end of this year.
http://www.aeronewstv.com/en/industry/commercial-aviation/3500-the-stretch-version-of-the-a350-expected-in-2017.html
Cathay Pacific has begun revenue flights to London Gatwick aboard the Airbus A350-900.
http://aviationtribune.com/airlines/asia/cathay-pacific-launches-flights-london-gatwick-airbus-a350/
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