A350 XWB First Flight just the week before Le Bourget - Paris Air Show in June

Boeing will put its 787 Dreamliner on flying display at the Paris Air Show, as the aircraft maker seeks to leave behind a prolonged grounding, while the A350 XWB may debut even before the June expo.

Qatar Airways, launch customer of the A350 XWB will fly the 787 over the Paris Air Show

Qatar Airways and Boeing are expected to participate now that U.S. regulators have cleared the airplane to fly again, said Gilles Fournier, managing director for the Paris show.

“We expect a flying display of the Boeing aircraft every day” with confirmation still pending, he said at a London briefing. The Airbus A350 XWB, the direct rival to the 787, is not planned to showcase at the event, with Fournier predicting the first flight before the show, which kicks off on June 17.

The Paris event rotates with the Farnborough International Air Show near London as the industry’s largest annual gathering of commercial and defense companies. It typically triggers a spate of aircraft orders and comes as Boeing and Airbus have already secured deals this year for about 1,000 jets.

“The show is fully booked since the end of January for the first time,” Fournier said. “This success follows the success of the industry.”

Fournier would not predict the level of sales announcements to be expected at the event’s 50th gathering at the Le Bourget airport north of Paris.

While some companies have cut back on the size of their displays to reduce costs, Fournier said smaller enterprises have filled space to bring the total number of exhibitors to a record 2,200.

Based on the article “Boeing 787 to Fly at Paris Air Show as Airbus A350 Debut in Flux” published in Bloomberg