Boeing’s biggest 787 customer today confirmed plans to keep all 74 aircraft currently on order and disclosed new interest to potentially place more orders for the next-generation widebody later this year.

The vote of confidence by International Lease Finance Corp. chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy – emailed to ATI affiliate Commercial Aviation Online – come the day after he disclosed that Boeing must redesign the 787 centre wing box.

“The 787 will turn out to be a good aircraft,” Udvar-Hazy wrote. “ILFC plans to keep its 74 orders firm and we are having a careful review later this year to see if ILFC needs to order more 787s to meet airline customer lease demand.”

News of the re-design problem first appeared in a JP Morgan research note to inv

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