GEnx engine
Flip the Script: GEnx Program Caps Off Big Year With LATAM Airlines Deal
Nearly 20 years ago, GE Aerospace lost out in a competition to power part of LATAM Airlines’ passenger air fleet. But what goes around sometimes eventually does come around. Case in point: This month, LATAM announced it is ordering five additional Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, all of which it plans to switch from competitor engines to GEnx-1B engines, making Chile-based LATAM the first airline in Latin America to utilize the GEnx.
It’s the kind of news you like to hear anytime, but for GEnx it amounts to icing on the cake.
Going Wide: As Air Traffic Picks Up, GEnx Signs Deals at Paris Air Show to Power 787 Fleets
If GE Aerospace’s recent deal-signing activity at the Paris Air Show is any indication, the market for wide-body commercial jets appears to be getting some of its mojo back after years of sluggish growth exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Future of Flight
Captain Mimmo: This Etihad Pilot Is Helping Make Aviation More Sustainable
Mimmo Catalano still remembers his first business meeting. It changed his life.
He was only 5 years old when his father, who worked for an Italian airline, took him to his office at the airport. “That day I saw airplanes for the first time, and I loved them immediately,” he says. “From them on, I kept asking my father, ‘Hey, are you having a meeting at the airport? I want to come with you.’ It was love at first sight.”
COVID-19
The Long Way Home: Powered By GEnx Engines, Nonstop Tahiti-To-Paris Flight Sets A Commercial Aviation Record
World records are often done to assert primacy — but sometimes they’re inspired by necessity. The latter was the case with the longest nonstop flight with paying passengers, completed in March by Air Tahiti Nui. With the outbreak of COVID-19, French nationals on the South Pacific island of Tahiti found themselves unable to return home due to international travel bans.
