Boeing’s Next-Gen Dreamliner to Debut This Week

Sources tell Reuters that Boeing‘s (BA) latest edition to its 787 Dreamliner family could make its first flight sometime next week. Boeing shares surged more than 2% on the news.

The 787-9 is 20 feet longer than the 787-8 Dreamliners currently in service and can travel farther without refueling. The new jet can accommodate 40 more passengers that current 787s. Manufacturing of the first 787-9 was completed in Washington in August, according to Boeing. Two more 787-9s will soon be finished.

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Airlines that purchase the new jet will face a list price of $243.6 million per jet. The current Dreamliner has a list price of $206.8 million per plane.

Boeing is scheduled to deliver the first 787-9 to Air New Zealand around the middle of next year. An even longer version of the Dreamliner — the 787-10 — will arrive in 2018, though that jet won’t be able to travel as far without refueling.

The entire Dreamliner fleet was grounded by worldwide aviation regulators earlier this year after a series of problems was linked to its lithium-ion batteries.

Boeing developed a containment system to prevent battery over-heating and fires, allowing the jets to return to the skies during the spring.