Originally Posted by
Kiskaloo
There is no regulatory basis to reduce the 787's current ETOPS-180 certification as that allows for a flight to depart with an inoperative APU battery or APU.
So if regulators are going to assume that the APU battery is still likely to fail and inop the APU, that would still allow ETOPS-180.
I understand that you are from Seattle and keen to bat for the home team, but even there it is surely understood that the recent issues with the battery were not due to it being inoperative - the thing caught FIRE !!!