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.