Japan's All Nippon Airways has resumed commercial flights of
the Boeing 787 Dream liner for the first time as the planes were grounded over due
to safety fears.
The first flight landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sunday
evening, local time, after a short and Cheap Domestic flights from Sapporo, situated in northern Japan.
Other Cheap Airfare
airlines have already resumed 787 flights, while ANA is Boeing's biggest Dream liner customer, with 17 planes.
An overheating battery on an ANA flight led 787s to be
grounded in January.
It followed a separate battery-related to emergency on a
Japan Airlines flight.
The planes have since then been modified with new battery
systems and have been given an approval to fly again by the US Federal Aviation
Authority.
Sunday's Dream liner Cheap Airfare flight was the first of
five to be scheduled by ANA in May, before the airline restarts a full
commercial schedule from 1 June.
It ran their first test flights in late April.
ANA operates more than one third of all Dream liners currently in service, and has another 36 on order.
According to the statement issued on Friday of Osamu Shinobe,
ANA's chief executive, he said the airline remained committed to the aircraft.
"The safety of passengers is our foremost priority.
Modifications for all 787 have been implemented and ANA has undertaken its own
additional testing," he said.
"The 787 remains to be a game-changing aircraft,
important from environmental, efficiency and passenger comfort panorama”.
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