Air India's Dreamliner woes continue

Air India's Dreamliner woes continue with a technical problem forcing the carrier to ground one of its planes in Paris Friday even as Boeing is planning to advance deliveries of the remaining 6 aircraft by a few months. The grounding of another Boeing 787-800 comes close on the heels of Air India's Kolkata-Delhi flight hitting the same problem last week, forcing a midnight replacement. Significantly, AI's engineering union had urged the management last year to defer deliveries of the remaining aircraft till Boeing does not address the technical issues and 'pay' compensation for the adverse impact on the carrier's on-time performance due to grounding of the planes. At the time of Kolkata incident, Air India had admitted that it was facing teething technical glitches in Dreamliner aircraft. <br/>