Rolls-Royce Engine Corrosion Spurs ANA to Check Dreamliners
- Japanese airline cancels nine flights using the 787 on Friday
- Carrier may need to scrub about 300 more through September
An All Nippon Airways Co. (ANA) Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner takes off at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.
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ANA Holdings Inc. is canceling flights as the world’s biggest operator of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner checks for corrosion in the jet’s Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engines.
The Japanese airline canceled nine flights scheduled for its 50-jet Dreamliner fleet for Friday and may scrub more than 300 trips through the end of September as it deals with cracking in the medium-pressure turbines of the Trent 1000 engines, Takeo Kikuchi, a deputy senior vice president of engineering and maintenance, told reporters Thursday in Tokyo.