All Nippon Airways To Get "First Dibs" On Dreamliner Fix

Above, the ANA exhibit booth at the Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It appears that Boeing is making progress in fixing the lithium-ion battery problem that has grounded its 787 Dreamliner jets.  And, All Nippon Airways will get "first dibs" with the fix.

Travelpulse.com reported:

Reuters reports that All Nippon Airways (ANA) the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s biggest buyer is training pilots with an eye to resuming 787 flights in June, according to unnamed industry sources. 

The first 787 flights that ANA will fly will be cargo flights, the news agency reports, in order to ease the public into a feeling of safety about the flights on the new aircraft that was taken out of service by regulators in January after a series of malfunctions with its lithium-ion batteries.

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