A senior Air India official told CNBC- TV18 that the engineering department of the national carrier had been directed to monitor the progress of examination being currently conducted by Boeing. "We would absolutely and categorically state that there are no safety concerns in Dreamliner. If there was even a minor threat then it would not have been allowed to fly. Dreamliner continues to be among the best aircrafts in the world," the AI official said.
The official in fact said that the national carrier would take delivery of the 11 th Dreamliner from Boeing by the end of the month. So far Air India has received 10 out of the 27 Dreamliner orders placed. In fact the delivery of the tenth Dreamliner was done earlier this week.
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The official also said that Air India's utilisation of Dreamliner is among the highest, currently with total usage of around 12 hours per day as compared to 8 hours per day for most other airlines which use the Dreamliner.
Other ministry sources said that during his recent visit to the US, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh had raised the issue of possible safety threat of the Dreamliner with the senior management of the Airlines. He is also learnt to have raised the issue of compensation to Air India for the delay in the delivery of the Dreamliners. Ajit Singh himself flew down from the US to India, "I think it's a clear message to those who feel the airline poses a safety threat to passengers," an official source said.
In the recent past the Dreamliner has been in the news for all the wrong reasons; earlier this week on a London to Delhi flight the pilots of the aircraft got a warning about a likely fault with the braking system. In another incident, an aircraft in the Delhi-Sydney flight developed a crack on its outer windshield.
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