United Airlines Expects Boeing 777S to Return to Sky in Q1 of 2022

A United Airlines Boeing 777-200ER lands astatine San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, Calif., connected April 14, 2015. (Louis Nastro/Reuters)

CHICAGO—United Airlines said connected Wednesday its Boeing 777-200 planes equipped with Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines are expected to instrumentality to work arsenic aboriginal arsenic successful the archetypal 4th of 2022.

The Chicago-based bearer had to crushed the wide-body jets aft a United formation to Honolulu suffered an motor nonaccomplishment and made an exigency landing successful February successful Denver.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered contiguous inspections of Boeing 777 planes fitted with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines aft the incident.

On Wednesday, the regulator said it is inactive evaluating the manufacturers’ projected fixes and volition not o.k. them until it is satisfied that they code its information concerns.

“Any enactment performed connected the airplanes anterior to that clip is taxable to being affected by immoderate caller Airworthiness Directives,” the FAA said successful a statement.

Greg Hart, United’s enforcement vice president, strategy and planning, said the institution has not heard from the FAA, but it expects the craft to instrumentality to work successful the archetypal 4th of adjacent year.

“We person been moving tirelessly with Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and the FAA implicit the past six months,” helium said.

United is the lone U.S. relation of 777s with the PW4000 motor and has 52 specified planes.

The anticipated instrumentality of the planes is simply a cardinal constituent of the company’s strategy to ramp up planetary capableness by 10 percent adjacent year.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said successful May the bureau was going to mandate strengthening a cardinal motor portion connected Boeing 777-200 planes with the PW4000 engines.

Dickson told a U.S. House committee that the bureau is “requiring the manufacturers to code strengthen(ing) the cowling” and volition contented an airworthiness directive.

By Rajesh Kumar Singh