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...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...
...That this is creating fallout in the labour market is not a surprise to Kevin Rockmann, a management professor at George Mason University in Virginia....
...One of the most prominent is Pratt & Whitney, the aero engine maker, part of United Technologies....
...Richard Aboulafia, an analyst at the Virginia-based Teal group, said that Lockheed was paying “a lot” but that Sikorsky was a “very good company”....
...That imperative prompted airlines to order aircraft such as Airbus’s A320neo, which can use Pratt & Whitney’s more fuel-efficient geared turbofan engine, when fuel prices were high....
...While other UTC businesses — such as Pratt & Whitney, the aerospace engine maker — supply kit to outside companies that fit the equipment into a finished product, Sikorsky is alone in the group as a systems...
...Among the frontrunners to develop a new, homegrown replacement for the RD180 would be United Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney division or Aerojet Rocketdyne....
...Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, says it is “too soon to say” which engine will eventually do better. Both Leap and Pure Power remain under development....
...Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, said that there would be intense interest in the Montreal airport incident....
...Although the US military is set to buy far more F-35s than its allies, overseas sales are important for Lockheed Martin, BAE and engine maker Pratt & Whitney – the three main contractors on the Joint Strike...
...Loren Thompson, a defence analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, said the charges reflected Ms Novakovic’s determination to put the company’s finances on a “more realistic footing”....
...In deal news, AES , the Virginia-based global power producer, announced that it had agreed to buy DPL , a regional energy company....
...The other aircraft being flown by Emirates and Air France-KLM are powered by Engine Alliance engines, which are made by a GE-Pratt & Whitney consortium....
...The aircraft maker has selected Pratt & Whitney Canada to supply its new PW810 engine range to power the Citation Columbus after a tough competition against offerings from Rolls-Royce and Snecma....
...He set out on a classically elite American route via Harvard, the University of Virginia’s Darden school of business and Boston Consulting Group....
...Amcor’s main rival is Visy, the privately-held group owned by billionaire Richard Pratt, Australia’s third richest individual....
...Visy, the privately-held Melbourne group controlled by billionaire Richard Pratt, confirmed Monday that it had been asked to provide information to the competition authorities in both Australia and New Zealand...
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