Just read on teletext that Lufthansa have awarded Rolls Royce, purveyor of the most superb aero engines, the contract to supply their Airbus A380 fleet with Trent 900 engines, lets hope this halts any further redundancies as the order book must be fairly bulging by now.
Regards, Dazza.
By: Dazza - 7th May 2002 at 17:34
RE: Good news for Rolls Royce
At the moment I think the only other engine being offered is the Engine Alliance Consortium’s GP7200, P&W and GE formed this company and have been chosen to provide engines for Emirates fleet of A380’s, even after the airline had already announced its preference for the Rolls Royce engine, this means the GP7200 has been chosen for 32 of the 97 A380’s ordered, with Rolls Royce having been chosen for 28 of the aircraft, this leaves the Fed Ex engines the next target.
Regards, Dazza.:-)
By: KabirT - 7th May 2002 at 16:16
RE: Good news for Rolls Royce
Yup RR does make great engines…..and ofcourse Lufthansa would have gone for the best. What other engines are being offered, P&W, CFM???
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