Boeing Delivered 9 Air frames in the month of August. Three 787-8's and Six 787-9's are among the Deliveries. Like last month, Royal Air Maroc driven its Dreamliner home The First one for the month.Most notable Deliveries included the Launch Operator ANA received it 50th DreamLiner overall and became the First operator to do so.Leaving it another 33 to join its fleet in the coming Years.
Another Important one was about Uzbekistan Airlines. It has received it first DreamLiner, A 787-8 which was part of its Order of 2 in way back 2007. Its the First carrier to Order Dreamliner in Central Asia and one more is coming to Delivery by Year End.
Finally the long awaited Delivery for British Airways, A Dreamliner 787-9 sitting in storage for months due to seat issues at its supplier Zodiac got the wings and flew to its home LHR.
Air China 1
ANA 1
Avianca 1
British Airways 1
Hainan Airlines 1
KLM 1
Royal Air Maroc 1
Uzbekistan Airways 1
ANA hit by Engine Issues
World largest Dreamliner fleet was hit by its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines as its found issue with its Engine's Carbon fiber blades. Since the Beginning of the year, ANA grounded 3 DreamLiners and found the bent and corrosion of Engine Fan blades. It decided to replace all its 100 Trent Engines but later confirmed that only doing the replacement of Fan Blades. Already Manufacturer Rolls-Royce working on New Fan Blade type and its only available beginning of Next year Hopefully.
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