RR Largest Ever Engine Order - EK

[Flying Fox]

Worth some $9.2B to supply engines to 50 EK A380s.

Rolls-Royce wins $9.2 billion order from Emirates for A380 engines | Reuters

My understanding is that the current EK A380 fleet runs the Engine Alliance GP7200 engines (I believe that they are the only A380 operators of this engine but I'm open to correction) so it must have been a very sweet deal to convince EK to run two different engine types on the same aircraft!

I wonder what the sales commission would be on that order???

 

[mannej]

My understanding is that the current EK A380 fleet runs the Engine Alliance GP7200 engines (I believe that they are the only A380 operators of this engine but I'm open to correction)

I am not privy to a list at the moment, but EK are not the sole operators of the GP7200 (Korean spring to mind and there are a couple of others).

 

[TomVexille]

That's a great sale for RR

 

[clazman]

Great sale, I assume that is pounds not dollars?

Does any one know what one engine is worth?

How easy is it to swap to a RR engine ?

Do you have to have 4 of the same or can you mix and match.

 

[moa999]

Wonder whether this has a side deal that RR will develop an upgraded a380 engine for the speculated A380neo that EK have been pushing for.

 

[Flying Fox]

I also wonder whether a GP7200 delivered bird can be switched to RR engines?

Could this signal the whole fleet of A380s go to RR birds?

 

[Ewok]

GP7200 current and future operators that I know of: Air Austral (on order, 2018), Air France, Emirates (yesterday's order), Etihad, Hong Kong Airlines (2016), Korean, Qatar & Transaero. Also;

• The order is in US dollars.
• True list price is very speculative and depends on volume and aftermarket maintenance agreements entered into (or not). At the end of the day no-one pays list (especially with volume like this). List price is probably $18-20M, however Emirates would have got the engines close to free (the money is in the aftermarket - like most RR and Emirates deals this order includes a flight hour agreement.).
• You can't mix and match engines on the same airframe. That is, Trent aircraft will only fly Trent engines, and EA aircraft will only fly EA engines.

 

[Flying Fox]

GP7200 current and future operators that I know of: Air Austral (on order, 2018), Air France, Emirates (yesterday's order), Etihad, Hong Kong Airlines (2016), Korean, Qatar & Transaero.

Thanks

Does this mean that the GP7200 feature on aircraft other than just the A380?

 

[moa999]

No exclusive to the A380, although the GE part (its a GE/P&W engine) is similar to the GE90 in the 777s