Shares in JAL, which has 35 of the planes on order, fell 2.3 percent. Spokesman Hirokazu Inoue said it would start talks with Boeing about compensation once the impact became clear. Mirroring Airbus The delays for the Boeing 787 mirror the costly and embarrassing problems at archrival Airbus, a unit of European aerospace group EADS, which was two years late with its A380 super jumbo airliner. The Dreamliner is now about 15 months behind schedule as Boeing makes slow progress on assembling the revolutionary plane and struggles with underperforming suppliers. Boeing's plan was to outsource almost all major manufacturing to outside companies and then assemble the plane itself. It has since found that such a decentralized structure makes it hard to keep a check on suppliers' mistakes and delays. However, shares in most of the U.S. suppliers of parts for the plane rose on Wednesday, with the delay much shorter than investors had anticipated. Boeing shares jumped 4.8 percent.