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Japan's Ministry of Land Infrastructure Transport and Tourism
said on Friday it issued the request after ANA Holdings, Japan's
biggest carrier, canceled 18 flights last month to repair
corroded turbine blades in the Rolls-Royce engines on some its
Dreamliner fleet.
Officials at the EASA were not immediately available for
comment.
Since February, three ANA flights have experienced engine
trouble, once on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo, a second
time in March on a jet traveling to Vietnam and most recently on
a domestic route in August.
The biggest operator of the carbon composite jet on Tuesday said
it would replace the faulty turbine blades in all 100 engines on
its 50 aircraft, an operation that could take as long as three
years to complete.
Of around 450 Dreamliners in operation worldwide, two fifths use
the Rolls-Royce engines. Carriers can choose either the
Rolls-Royce engines or General Electric Co's <GE.N> GEnx engines
for their Dreamliners.
(Reporting by Maki Shiraki in TOKYO and Tim Hepher in PARIS;
Writing by Tim Kelly; Editing by Joseph Radford)
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