787s Could Fly In A Week As Battery Fix Begins

Boeing ] began installing reinforced lithium-ion batteries on five grounded 787 jets operated by launch customer All Nippon Airways, starting a process that should make the aircraft ready to fly again in about a week.

Boeing has grounded 787s since mid January because of overheating of the batteries. US regulators have just approved the new reinforced lithium-ion batteries which has cleared the way for installing.
 Grounding the Boeing 787s has cost Boeing around USD$600 million and halted the production, also forced some airlines to lease alternative aircrafts.  

"Our first priority is to get the existing fleet back into the air," Larry Loftis, vice president and general manager of the 787 programme at Boeing, told European reporters.
"We went to great lengths to question every assumption we made in the initial design and greatly expanded the thought process for what could be potential causes," Loftis said.

Boeing pilots will need to go back through training to renew the licence as its been 3 months since they have flown the Boeing 787. Boeing are hoping this will be the end of the drama as they plan to continue production.

Also Loftis said "We aren't changing forecasts for future (787) orders because of this incident,"