Rolls Royce receives $1bn engine order
Japanese airline All Nippon has placed a billion dollar order with Rolls-Royce for engines for 50 of the new 7E7 jetliners it is buying from Boeing.
Boeing selected US company General Electric and Rolls-Royce to develop and supply engines for the 7E7. The 7E7 Dreamliner planes, which will carry 200 to 300 passengers, are set to fly in 2008.
All Nippon, Japan’s number two airline, said its engine selection committee chose Rolls-Royce’s Trent 1000 because it was highly rated in terms of safety, reliability, fuel efficiency, noise and emissions.
The value of the engine order is about €1bn (€811,000m).
Boeing and French rival Airbus are betting their futures on different visions of the jet market. Airbus is developing the A380, a 555-seat, double-decker airliner. By contrast, Boeing is pouring its efforts into the 7E7, a much smaller, fuel-efficient aircraft.
