Air India would receive the delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's most fuel efficient carrier, in the fourth quarter of 2011. The announcement by Boeing on the sidelines of the Aero India 2011 as per a PTI report.
The Air India delivery would follow the first delivery to Japanese airline Air Nippon Airways, slated for the third quarter of this year, Boeing India President Dinesh Keskar said here. The project to deliver the commercial jets is almost three years behind schedule.
The company would deliver a total of 27 Boeing 787s, a midsized aircraft, to Air India and 10 to Jet Airways.
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