We had the 787 fleet ops manager on our jumpseat last week. He said they have a meeting with boeing in 2 weeks in which they are going to update them on the delivery status. He said they think they will have deliveries starting early 2012 but at a faster rate then originally...if we where willing to take them faster.

So the captain and I speculated that the system bid was delayed for the 787 update. Ok there is my contribution to rumors.