Dubai Airshow: Rolls-Royce starts show with $2bn orders

Rolls-Royce, kicked off the Dubai show this morning with $2bn of Trent orders. It announced this evening that it has won an order for Trent 700 engines to power 20 Air China Airbus A330 aircraft. The contract, worth $1.5bn at list prices, includes long-term TotalCare service support.
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The aircraft, to be delivered from 2011, will take Air China's Rolls-Royce powered A330 fleet to a total of 43.

It also announced that Ethiopian Airlines has ordered Trent XWB engines worth $480m at list prices. This order takes sales of the Trent XWB, the fastest-selling Trent engine, past 1,000.  

The engines, the first Trent purchase by the airline, will power 12 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, with entry into service beginning in 2017.?  

In China, the Trent 700 has now been selected fourteen times by nine customers to power a total of 178 A330s in service or on order.  

More than 1,000 Trent 700s are in service or on firm order. As the only engine specifically designed for the aircraft, the Trent 700 has won more than 70 per cent of new orders over the last three years.

Phil Harris, Rolls-Royce Senior Vice President Customer Business, said   “We are delighted that Air China is again turning to Trent engine technology. “ As part of the contract, Trent 700 engines for Air China’s existing fleet of A330s will be retrofitted with enhanced performance kits.

 

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