Boeing faces battles: fixing Dreamliner and winning back fliers
Boeing faces battles: fixing Dreamliner and winning back fliers
- January 17, 2013
- Jan Brueckner, economics professor and department chair, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times January 17, 2013
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From the LA Times:
Jan Brueckner, an economics professor at UC Irvine who specializes in the airline
industry, said he doesn't believe the problem with the Dreamliner will severely affect
the future of Boeing Co. "The issue may be a quality control problem at the battery
manufacturer, which would be easily correctable, or maybe a design problem with the
component, which would take longer to correct but still not be a major setback," he
said. "Either way, this seems more like a bad version of a new-plane glitch rather
than a major fault in the aircraft."
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dreamliner-fear-20130118,0,4968098....
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