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ENGINES
FEA
FEATURE ENGINES
Competitive Efficiency
The next-generation of widebody jetliners will showcase the greatest technology leaps
with their powerplants
By Atul Chandra
THREE IMPORTANT TWIN-AISLE jETLINER these aircraft are the most powerful and
types will enter service over the next few efficient aero-engines ever designed, and
years. Airbus will be first to market with the are key to the economics of long-haul flights
A330neo and A350-100 which are both due where reliability, efficiency and safety are
for delivery in 2017 and Boeing will deliver paramount. When it comes to orders, as of 31
the first 787-10 in the second half of 2018. May, for Airbus the A350-1000 had received
The next aircraft to enter the widebody 181 orders, while the A330neo had racked up
market will be Boeing’s 777X which is slated 186 orders. Boeing on with its 777X Family
for service entry in 2020. These types will and 787-10 had notched up 306 and 153
deliver to their airline operators dramatically orders respectively.
Rolls Royce expects to increase reduced operating costs per passenger, as The A330neo (new engine option) Family
its present market share in the
widebody aero engine market to 50 a result of the highly efficient engines that was launched by Airbus in July 2014 and
per cent by early next decade will power them. The new engines that power comprises of two aircraft; the A330-800neo
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