5 steps to here

The dreaming dreamliners

1. December 2005 Air India places order for 27 Dreamliners. Deliveries scheduled to begin in September 2008.

2. December 2006 Jet Airways places orders for 10 Dreamliners in a $1.5 billion order

3. July 2007 First Dreamliner unveiled

4. August 2010 Air India seeks $840 million compensation for delay in delivery

5. November 2010 Boeing says it will deliver the first Dreamliner to Air India in the second quarter of next year.

-T.V. Mahalingam