Boeing Co said that state-owned Air India Ltd will start preparing this week to take its first 787 Dreamliners, which are almost four years late, after the jets won government approval amid the probe of an engine failure.

"They want to know what the issue is, just like anybody would," Boeing India President Dinesh Keskar said in an interview. "We've worked with them for 60 years, and they know we're not going to give them something that's not right. But they certainly want to know what's going on and told us to let them know by Monday if we have any insight."

Keskar said executives at Air India called him on Friday from India after a cabinet committee authorized a compensation agreement between Boeing and the airline for delivery delays. The executives stayed up all night to prepare for the session, he said. K. Swaminathan, a spokesman at Mumbai-based Air India, didn't immediately respond to two calls each to his cell phone and work phone.