All Nippon Airlines is sticking to its plan to roll out the trouble-plagued Dreamliner across its fleet, its chief executive said Wednesday, hours after one of the planes made an emergency landing.
"We are not in a situation where we should change the strategy we have been pursuing," Shinichiro Ito told reporters after meeting with Japan's transport minister Akihiro Ota, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
ANA has bet heavily on the Dreamliner, ordering a total 66 so far from Boeing, many of which it plans to use on routes that go head-to-head with Japan's burgeoning low cost carrier networks.
Ito said there was no plan to alter a schedule that would see all 66 aircraft delivered by 2021, Dow Jones said.
The report said the airline chief had apologised to the government minister for the "trouble" caused by the emergency landing on Wednesday when a Dreamliner with 137 people on board diverted mid-flight after instruments indicated smoke in an electrical compartment.
No one was seriously injured in the incident, which came after a string of mishaps hit the Dreamliner, including a battery fire, fuel leaks and a cracked cockpit window.
Aviation regulators in the US, Japan and India have all announced inquiries into Boeing's centrepiece offering.
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Obviously you're bound to stick to the plan unless the plane has serious issues. But I hope ANA has made the right choice having so many Dreamliners in its fleet.
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