Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been in the news recently for having issues with their lithium-ion batteries. As a result of this the company has been experiencing a line of issues with delay of delivery, business loss, and redesign costs within the last four years. Due to an overheating issue in the lithium-ion battery, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was forced to be grounded. This has happened on two different occasions not too long ago, in addition to emergency landings, fires and others. Nevertheless the aircraft company still defends its choice of using lithium-ion batteries on their planes, explaining that the batteries deliver “significant benefits” (W.J. Hennigan). There have been several reports claiming the batteries to be defective and prone to overheating issues, although they tend to make the 787 a lighter and more fuel efficient aircraft compared to others. Nevertheless as a result of its latest issues Boeing has decided to revert back to nickel cadmium main batteries as a plan B, which are known to be more reliable batteries. The Dreamliners have been brought to a halt, and swapped the defective aircraft with alternates until the date of January 28th of this year. Ironically enough, “Boeing has not slowed down its production of Dreamliners and plans to deliver the same,(around five per month), planes to dozens of airlines around the world” (Martin). Their plan is to keep delivering their airlines at the same rate until they are given the go-ahead to resume flight by the FAA. Overall, in my opinion Boeing is not making a wise choice by continuing to build their Dreamiline aircraft. The fact that they are under scrutiny by the FAA, and having had problems with the lithium-ion battery should a clear indicator that they should discontinue, if not at least pause, their production of Dreamline aircrafts. In addition Boeing officials declined to share any information on behalf of possible compensation for delivery delays to aircraft carriers which is even