Boeing to Compensate Air India for 787 Delay
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Boeing to compensate Air India for Dreamliner delay
Indo-Asian News Service
Mumbai, February 13, 2008
First Published: 20:31 IST(13/2/2008)
Last Updated: 20:32 IST(13/2/2008)
US-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing will pay compensation to Air India for delaying delivery of 787 Dreamliners.
"We will be making compensations as a penalty amount," Boeing's senior vice-president of sales of commercial airplanes, Dinesh Keskar, told IANS.
However, Keskar declined to disclose figures.
The state-owned Air India had placed an order of 27 Dreamliners. The company was scheduled to receive the first of the Dreamliners in the second half of 2008.
Now the delivery of the fastest-selling plane in history has been pushed to February 2009, said Keskar.
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