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Dreamliners' longest trips face curbs because of Rolls-Royce engine issues

Hardest hit will be airlines flying Boeing's carbon-fiber airliners on trans-Pacific routes

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A Boeing 737 MAX sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington

Julie Johnsson, Benjamin D Katz and Alan Levin | Bloomberg
About a quarter of Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners in service face restrictions on long-range flights as regulators respond to mushrooming problems with a Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engine.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is expected early next week to curb the travel time that Dreamliners powered by a Trent 1000 variant are allowed to be away from the nearest airport, said a person briefed on the matter. The European Aviation Safety Agency on Friday required the equivalent of monthly inspections for the turbine, which debuted four years ago with Boeing’s 787-9.

The regulators are responding to revelations on Friday from Rolls-Royce