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Boeing Sees More Delays for New 787

Production glitches might force another postponement

By Zach Samalin,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 15, 2008 7:48 PM CST
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(Newser) – Boeing is expected to announce soon that it will delay yet again delivery of its 787 Dreamliner, the Wall Street Journal reports. Production is already 6 months behind schedule, and the goal of finishing 109 by the end of next year looks impossible. Boeing may have to pay millions in fines to impatient airlines, and it risks losing customers to rival Airbus.

Scheduled to fly last summer, the first Dreamliner is still in production and may not fly until June. With parts shortages and similar factory-end mishaps fueling the postponements, critics have chastised Boeing for giving up too much control to an overextended network of suppliers. And Boeing shares have registered the effect of the delays, plummeting from $107 to the low $80s.

Visitors crowd around the first production model of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane during a ceremony at at Boeing's assembly plant in Everett, Wash in this July 8, 2007 file photo. In the months since Boeing Co. announced a six-month delay in its 787 flight-test and delivery schedule, few...
Visitors crowd around the first production model of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane during a ceremony at at Boeing's assembly plant in Everett, Wash in this July 8, 2007 file photo. In the months...   (Associated Press)
Visitors crowd around the first production model of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane during a ceremony at at Boeing's assembly plant in Everett, Wash in this July 8, 2007 file photo. Boeing Co. on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 said it finalized a deal with British Airways, notching 790 orders...
Visitors crowd around the first production model of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane during a ceremony at at Boeing's assembly plant in Everett, Wash in this July 8, 2007 file photo. Boeing Co....   (Associated Press)
Puja Mdhta, left, looks at merchandise with clerk Lisa Glenn in The Boeing Store at Boeing Corporate Offices in Chicago in this April 26, 2006 file photo. Boeing Co., the world's No. 2 commercial airplane maker, posted its best profit in nearly four years on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007 as...
Puja Mdhta, left, looks at merchandise with clerk Lisa Glenn in The Boeing Store at Boeing Corporate Offices in Chicago in this April 26, 2006 file photo. Boeing Co., the world's No. 2 commercial airplane...   (Associated Press)
Boeing Co. provided this Dec. 9, 2007 photo of the production line at the Boeing 787 Final Assembly factory in Everett, Wash. Boeing on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 said that its schedule for the 787 Dreamliner remains on track and it does not currently envision further delays in the much-ballyhooed...
Boeing Co. provided this Dec. 9, 2007 photo of the production line at the Boeing 787 Final Assembly factory in Everett, Wash. Boeing on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 said that its schedule for the 787 Dreamliner...   (Associated Press)
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