United Airlines’ new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner that debuted the carrier’s new “United Elevate” interiors has been having some serious issues, to the point that the plane seems to be heading back to Boeing for some work. One wonders if this is just really bad luck, or what’s going on.
At the time, I covered how the airline faced massive maintenance issues with this plane, including the return flight of the inaugural diverting, causing it to be ferried back to San Francisco empty. Then within a day of the plane reentering international service, it had even more maintenance issues, causing it to be taken out of service again.
While things seemed to be going smoothly for some amount of time, that’s no longer the case, as reported by JonNYC. As a matter of fact, over the past two weeks, the plane has operated a single flight with passengers:
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