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Qatar Airways refuses to take Dreamliners built in South Carolina, due to quality issues. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-product
by metabagel 7y ago
Qatar Airways refuses to take Dreamliners built in South Carolina, due to quality issues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
- mzs 7y agoThen Boeing tried to deliver them just days before the end of the year but Qatar Airlines had them fly back. My guess is it really was that Boeing had not met the schedule for fitting the Qsuite and QA was having none of it. https://simpleflying.com/qatar-airways-flies-brand-new-boeing-787-9s-back-to-the-us/ https://simpleflying.com/qatar-airways-flies-brand-new-boein...
- nexuist 7y ago>Qatar Airlines had them fly back Must be quite a somber experience piloting an aircraft just deemed unreliable by your employer...
- mzs 7y agoIt was eight months later, the planes were fine. This was about Boeing trying to deliver planes CY19 for accounting reasons that did not have business class seating that can turn into a conference room, the reason QA chose to buy them in the first place.