Boeing Co Resumes Deliveries Of Its 787 Dreamliner Jets

Boeing Co has resumed deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner jets, handing over one plane to United Airlines, an initial step as the U.S. planemaker works through production defects that sidelined dozens of aircraft.

Last week, Boeing remained on course to resume deliveries of a few 787s this month, which a Boeing spokeswoman said remained the goal.

The delivery from its South Carolina factory comes as Boeing undertakes painstaking repairs and forensic inspections to fix structural integrity flaws embedded deep inside dozens of 787s, issues which halted deliveries since October, cutting off a key source of cash.

The inspections and retrofits could take up to a month per plane and are likely to cost hundreds of millions – if not billions – of dollars, depending on the number of planes across the fleet that are impacted and the defects involved.