Japan’s All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner,” will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries.

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries.

China's aviation regulator cleared Boeing's 787 aircraft for commercial service and is expected to allow domestic airlines to launch overseas flights within a matter of months.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's civil aviation regulator on Thursday formally approved Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner for use in the country, clearing the way for Chinese airlines to start operating the aircraft, which has been plagued with problems. The regulator made the announcement in a short statement on its website (www.caac.gov.cn), without giving further details. China Southern Airlines Co Ltd and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co is 90 percent finished with retrofits of the battery system on its 787 Dreamliner and should finish the rest by next week, Ray Conner, president of the company's commercial airplane division, told an investor conference on Wednesday. Conner told the conference he saw "great momentum" on the 787 program, after overheated batteries prompted a fleetwide ...