Boeing Marketing V-P says the 787 proposal is a "permanent fix"
UPDATE 1-Boeing confident has permanent 787 battery fix-exec | Reuters
They just don't get it, do they ? Having the Sales & Marketing department making the public pronouncements on the 787 fix. It's not only that many informed observers in the industry don't buy the proposal for one second (see above), let alone what the customer airlines think, but the overbearing dominance of the sales-led management over the design and engineering side was what got them into this in the first place.
What is surely needed is for the CEO and their competent electrical engineers (Boeing must have a few left) to stand up and say what the issue is, what the correction is, and all the technical detail needed for informed observers to understand what has been done. Instead we seem to have "Hey, it's fixed, I'm tellin' ya. Just gimme the certificate back so we can ship the iron and get the billing done ......".