Dreamliner Battery

• Ethiopian Airlines launches first 787 Dreamliner flight since grounding

  Ethiopian Airlines on Saturday became the world's first carrier to resume flights with Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner passenger jets, a Reuters witness said.

• Air India may resume Dreamliner flights by April-end

  With the US aviation regulator approving Boeing's plan to fix the battery-fire problem in the Dreamliner fleet, Air India on Wednesday hoped to resume flights of this grounded aircraft by the later part of next month.

• Boeing, battery maker at odds over 787 fix: report

  Boeing Co and the Japanese company that makes lithium-ion batteries for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner disagree about what should be included in a package of measures aimed at getting the airliner back in the air, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing government and industry officials.

• Dreamliner compensation lifts Qantas H1 profit by 10 per cent

  Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd reported a 10.4 per cent rise in first-half profit on Thursday, as a turnaround of its loss-making international operations gathers pace.

• Dreamliner batteries should not be shipped with passengers: UN agency

  The United Nations' aviation watchdog said on Wednesday it is suspending a short-lived waiver that let airlines ship the batteries behind the grounding of Boeing Co's new Dreamliner planes as cargo on passenger planes.

• Dreamliner battery suffered 'thermal runaway': probe

  Japanese officials probing the emergency landing of a Boeing Dreamliner said today that its lithium-ion battery was damaged by a build up of heat that resulted in uncontrollably high temperatures.

• Boeing sees no big impact from 787 woes, profit beats expectations

  Boeing Co posted a stronger-than-expected profit on Wednesday as its backlog of orders rose, and said its 2013 forecast "assumes no significant financial impact" from the grounding of its 787 Dreamliner jet by regulators.

• Lengthy 787 probe, fixing problem, may cost Boeing dear

  The slow progress of investigations into battery problems on Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jets suggest the new plane could be grounded for months, raising fears that the financial hit to Boeing will be greater than had been initially predicted.