No further delay in Dreamliner deliveries: Boeing

WASHINGTON: Leading US jet builder Boeing denied on Saturday German media reports that deliveries of its next-generation B787 Dreamliner would be delayed by another nine weeks.

"There is no further delay. It is exactly what we announced in April. It is the same schedule, no further delay," Boeing spokeswoman Yvonne Leach told media.

Earlier Saturday German newspaper Die Welt reported that Boeing had signalled a further nine-month delay to clients for the Dreamliner.

The report cited a letter sent by the company explaining that orders will now be fulfilled a total of 27 months late.

Die Welt said the delay would affect primarily companies expecting to take delivery from 2012 and beyond, including Air Europe, Gulf Air, Vietnam Airlines and British Airways.

On April 9, Boeing said the first B787 flight would move into the fourth quarter of this year rather than the end of the second, with first delivery planned for the third quarter of 2009 instead of the first.