Emirates unhappy with performance shortfalls in superjumbo engines
Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, said it is unhappy with performance shortfalls afflicting $6.1bn’s worth of Rolls-Royce Holdings engines ordered to power a batch of 50 Airbus Group SE A380 superjumbos. Feedback on the Trent 900 powerplants indicates "technical issues" that need to be resolved before the first plane is delivered to Emirates next month, Tim Clark, the Dubai-carrier’s president, said Friday in Frankfurt. "We have a new engine coming on and there are some issues with that at the moment," Clark said at a media briefing. "We want the engines as promised in the contract." Emirates last year ordered 217 Trent 900s — sufficient to power the 50 four-engine A380s, plus spares — after previously purchasing GP7000 powerplants from an alliance of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney for its first 90 superjumbos. The deal with Rolls included unspecified "quality improvements." Clark said Emirates will "hopefully" still take the first Rolls-Royce powered plane on D...
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