He won’t look very similar to it, but Norwegian chief executive Bjørn Kjos is sort of a child on his birthday. He has a brand new plane to play with, the Boeing Dreamliner, but there’s a small problem. It has no batteries. The hitch means Norwegian will be unable to launch its much vaunted long-haul Boeing 787 flights to Ny in April as planned (with Norwegian instead wet leasing two Airbus A340s to fly the route in the intervening time). As Kjos explains: “We have taken a call to take these wet lease planes for 2 and 3 months respectively; we’re expecting delays of weeks, other than months, within the delivery of the Dreamliner. “Boeing is operating incredibly hard to get the battery issues with that plane corrected. We now...
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