Singapore_Air From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2000, 13667 posts, RR: 26 Reply 1, posted (11 years 3 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 703 times:
Hopefully I'll find something a bit more through soon
FT.COM
Rolls-Royce wins Qantas A380 engine order
By FT.com staff in London
Published: February 16 2001 09:14GMT | Last Updated: February 16 2001 11:14GMT
Rolls-Royce on Friday scored a victory over rival General Electric of the US when Qantas chose the UK jet engine maker to supply engines for its 12 new Airbus A380s.
The contract, for its Trent 900 engines, is part of a $4.6bn Qantas fleet programme, designed to increase capacity on both domesic and international routes. To that end, it will purchase 31 new aircraft over the next 10 years.
Qantas, Australia's leading airline, said on Friday it had selected General Electric to provide engines for seven Airbus A330-200s, six A330-300s and six long-range Boeing 747-400s. They are expected to be delivered by 2006.
Qantas declined to place a value on either the GE or the Rolls-Royce orders.
Rolls-Royce has been steadily increasing its share of the world jet engine market in recent years and is locked in a battle with the Engine Alliance joint venture of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney for orders to power the A380.
Its Trent 900 has also been chosen in preference to the GE/Pratt & Whitney GP7000 engine by Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and International Lease Finance Corporation.
Na From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 8618 posts, RR: 11 Reply 3, posted (11 years 3 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 689 times:
Interesting is that QF is choosing GE for their Sixpack of B747-438LR. All other Jumbos bought from Seattle had RR so far, only the trio of second-744s has GE.
Btw, I was already expecting them to change to GE here - just look at the official picture on www.boeing.com announcing the order: this 744-illustration is not carrying the easy to identify RR-engines!
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