American Airlines will trim international flights because of Boeing 787 delays
American Airlines said Thursday that it would fly fewer international flights next summer than it had planned because it was waiting for Boeing to address quality concerns and restart delivering the 787 Dreamliner jet. The disclosure, made in a securities filing, is the latest sign that Boeing is struggling to overcome quality and other problems that have eroded its credibility and led to the ouster of its chief executive. The manufacturer’s troubles have also hurt its customers who cannot easily buy planes from another producer. Boeing has just one main rival, Airbus, and that company has a long backlog of orders. American was expecting 13 new Dreamliners this winter, but Boeing has delayed deliveries of all of those planes. The manufacturer has said that the disruption to the production of 787 planes will cost it about $1b. Boeing had paused deliveries of the plane briefly last year and again in May as it worked with the FAA to address the quality concerns. The company slowed production of the plane over the summer and suffered another setback in October, when a supplier to Boeing said that it had provided parts that were made with the wrong titanium alloy. “We deeply regret the impact to our customers as we work through the process to resume deliveries of new 787s,” Boeing said. The Dreamliner is a wide-body plane with two aisles in the cabin, allowing the airlines to fly more passengers on longer flights. The delays have forced American to cancel plans to bring back flights to Edinburgh and Shannon, Ireland and seasonal flights to other destinations such as Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Prague, the airline said. American also said it would significantly reduce service to cities in Asia and Australia and delay plans to start nonstop flights from Seattle to Bangalore, India. “Without these widebodies, we simply won’t be able to fly as much internationally as we had planned next summer or as we did in summer 2019,” Vasu Raja, the airline’s chief revenue officer, said in a note to staff that was made public in the securities filing. Despite the delays, Raja said American was standing by the Boeing plane.<br/>
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American Airlines will trim international flights because of Boeing 787 delays
American Airlines said Thursday that it would fly fewer international flights next summer than it had planned because it was waiting for Boeing to address quality concerns and restart delivering the 787 Dreamliner jet. The disclosure, made in a securities filing, is the latest sign that Boeing is struggling to overcome quality and other problems that have eroded its credibility and led to the ouster of its chief executive. The manufacturer’s troubles have also hurt its customers who cannot easily buy planes from another producer. Boeing has just one main rival, Airbus, and that company has a long backlog of orders. American was expecting 13 new Dreamliners this winter, but Boeing has delayed deliveries of all of those planes. The manufacturer has said that the disruption to the production of 787 planes will cost it about $1b. Boeing had paused deliveries of the plane briefly last year and again in May as it worked with the FAA to address the quality concerns. The company slowed production of the plane over the summer and suffered another setback in October, when a supplier to Boeing said that it had provided parts that were made with the wrong titanium alloy. “We deeply regret the impact to our customers as we work through the process to resume deliveries of new 787s,” Boeing said. The Dreamliner is a wide-body plane with two aisles in the cabin, allowing the airlines to fly more passengers on longer flights. The delays have forced American to cancel plans to bring back flights to Edinburgh and Shannon, Ireland and seasonal flights to other destinations such as Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Prague, the airline said. American also said it would significantly reduce service to cities in Asia and Australia and delay plans to start nonstop flights from Seattle to Bangalore, India. “Without these widebodies, we simply won’t be able to fly as much internationally as we had planned next summer or as we did in summer 2019,” Vasu Raja, the airline’s chief revenue officer, said in a note to staff that was made public in the securities filing. Despite the delays, Raja said American was standing by the Boeing plane.<br/>
