Boeing Dreamliner Grounding Costs Ailing LOT $50,000 a Day
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LOT Polish Airlines SA, the first European carrier to receive Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners, said it is losing $50,000 a day because of the jet’s grounding, compounding an already precarious financial situation.
The 787’s operational suspension has cost the state-owned carrier 7.7 million zloty ($2.5 million) in the last two weeks of January, the treasury ministry said today in a statement to Parliament. The airline’s loss last year totaled 157.1 million zloty even as sales grew 4 percent to 3.31 billion zloty.