U.S., April 24 -- "We will go after Boeing over compensation for hundreds of millions of zlotys in losses," LOT Polish airline CEO Mikosz told the press on Tuesday.
Star Alliance member LOT Polish airlines CEO says that the national carrier's Dreamliner aircraft could be back in service in six to eight weeks, following the green light to fly from US Federal Aviation Administration. He continued to say : My much bigger competitors will probably fly before us, which is quite a bitter pill to swallow."
"If everything goes according to plan, we want to get two Dreamliners back on the network in early June," Sebastian Mikosz told the PAP news agency, Monday.
Another 787 Dreamliner - the third of eight ordered from Boeing by LOT, at a cost of 200 million USD an aircraft - would also be flying in mid-June, Mikosz added, with a fourth in the air in July and a fifth in August.
Boeing has modified the Dreamliners' lithium-ion batteries after safety fears, with the entire fleet grounded since January.
Sebastian Mikosz, who took over as CEO at LOT airlines in February, complained, however, to the Wall Street Journal that other airlines were ahead in the queue to get their Dreamliners fitted with the new batteries and back in service. Published by HT Syndication with permission from US Eturbo News. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at [email protected]
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