Source: Boeing to propose 787 battery fix to FAA

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. The practical problem is even 100% airworthy the 787 might be a permanent drain on the company,

They sold hundreds of these things at impossible discounts and have paid out billions of dollars in penalties to the customers who were supposed to begin receiving their planes Spring 2008, it finally limped into service in the Fall of 2011 but catching up with the order backlog and ceasing the penalty payments to airlines will take years.

At some point the MBA's who conceived this monster might decided it is time to take it out back the courthouse and shoot it with a bankruptcy filing to wipe-out the liability of the order backlog.