Dreamliner’s Lure Keeps Airline CEOs Wedded to Troubled Jet
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Airlines that bought Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner for its long range and industry-leading fuel savings are rallying behind the grounded plane whose fate is bound up with their own.
From AMR Corp.’s American Airlines to lessor CIT Group Inc. and billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., customers say they expect a fix for the battery faults keeping the world’s most technologically advanced jet on tarmacs instead of in the skies. The 787 has about 800 unfilled orders.