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...US aerospace and defence group RTX has appointed the former head of its Pratt & Whitney business as its new chief executive, as it continues to navigate the recall of aircraft engines made by the unit....
...Ryanair has been forced to slightly dial down its summer plans amid large delivery delays from crisis-hit Boeing, while Wizz Air has been badly hit by problems with the Pratt & Whitney engines on its Airbus...
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...The recall of 1,200 Pratt & Whitney engines on Airbus aircraft could cost airlines worldwide nearly $430mn, according to estimates released by the US federal aviation regulator....
...Hundreds of aircraft worldwide will be grounded over the next few years owing to problems with Pratt & Whitney engines, in a $3bn hit to parent RTX and another setback for airlines already struggling to...
...Last month Pratt & Whitney, a unit of aerospace and defence giant RTX, was forced to issue a recall of its popular geared turbofan engine GTF....
...US aerospace and defence group RTX Corp, formerly Raytheon, expects to take a $3bn hit from issues with roughly 1,200 Pratt & Whitney engines fitted to Airbus jets....
...The only effective sanctions are for the original equipment manufacturers or OEMs (Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney and GE) to stop issuing updates to the flight and maintenance manuals....
...Airlines in the US and Europe are rushing to find spare parts and engines and avoid flight cancellations after engine-maker Pratt & Whitney issued a product recall last month....
...The London-listed airline on Thursday said it would be forced to ground 45 of its roughly 200 planes because of potential problems with their Pratt & Whitney engines....
...Outages related to Pratt & Whitney engines on the popular Airbus narrow-body jets have affected rival Wizz Air....
...& Whitney, we are projecting a grounding of 45 aircraft by the end of F24 (including aircraft previously grounded in September ‘23 and from mid-January ‘24)....
...The London-listed airline on Thursday said it would be forced to ground 45 aircraft because of potential problems with their Pratt & Whitney engines....
...Turkey’s F-16 purchases will largely be fulfilled by Lockheed Martin, while Lockheed and Pratt & Whitney will be the main contractors on the Greek F-35 deal....
...RTX, the US aerospace and defence group, took a $2.9bn hit to operating profits related to problems with its Pratt & Whitney engines....
...More than a thousand Pratt & Whitney engines need to be removed from Airbus aircraft and inspected, forcing a number of airlines to change their schedules or ground aircraft....
...Pratt & Whitney thinks that an average of 350 aircraft will be grounded between 2024 and 2026 while a manufacturing fault is fixed....
...The company makes components for Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines, which power Airbus aircraft and some of which have been recalled for early reinspection....
...Problems with the geared turbofan engines made by US engine maker Pratt & Whitney that power some of the A320neos could yet hamper Airbus’s plans to increase the output of its jets over the next two years...
...Rolls-Royce left the market more than a decade ago when it pulled out of a joint venture with Pratt & Whitney of the US. P&W remains the most obvious partner, according to analysts....
...Faury said the company was still sticking to its plan to produce 75 of its A320 narrow-body aircraft in 2026 despite challenges with enginemaker Pratt & Whitney....
...Airbus and Boeing have suffered from delays in producing new aircraft, while some airlines have also had to take their existing jets out of service because of a product recall from engine maker Pratt & Whitney...
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