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Talk about a bad time to launch a new airline service.
The Polish airline, LOT, is scheduled Wednesday night to debut its Boeing 787 Dreamliner service in the U.S. with a nonstop flight from Chicago to Warsaw.
The high-tech Dreamliner, introduced with much hype by Boeing last year, has had a number of recent problems, including fires and fuel spills. And on Wednesday airlines in Japan said they were grounding their Dreamliner fleets due to a technical scare.
But so far the Polish flight is still on. "According to our best knowledge," said an email from LOT's home office in Warsaw, "the flight from Chicago to Warsaw will be operated with the Dreamliner as scheduled."
A ceremony is planned for Wednesday night at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel in attendance, to mark the start of the service.
It's not known whether any passengers planning to take the flight have canceled their reservations. LOT representatives in Warsaw declined to be interviewed and did not answer emailed questions about any cancellations.
"We conducted preventively a series of reviews of all systems in both Boeing 787 we have in our fleet," the airline said in an emailed statement. "All the tests were completed positively."
LOT was the first European airline to put the Dreamliner in service, flying the aircraft Dec. 14 from Warsaw to Prague.
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways said that they were suspending their Dreamliner flights after a Dreamliner flown by All Nippon made an emergency landing Wednesday because of a battery warning light. Passengers exited via emergency slides. No one was reported injured.
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