Rolls-Royce has moved forward with a deal to power a new fleet of Airbus long-haul jets for Philippine Airlines.<\/p>\n
The FTSE-100 firm will provide 18 engines for nine new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft in a deal worth “hundreds of millions of pounds”.<\/p>\n
The agreement, once finalised, also includes a maintenance package, meaning Rolls-Royce will continue servicing and monitoring the engines throughout their operational life, officials said.<\/p>\n
The government welcomed the deal, saying it would bring “good quality jobs” to the company’s Derby base.<\/p>\n
The order was first announced as a memorandum of understanding at the Farnborough International Airshow in July.<\/p>\n
At the time, Rob Watson, president of civil airspace at Rolls-Royce, said the company was “proud to continue strengthening our long-standing relationship with Philippine Airlines”.<\/p>\n
While the deal is described as being worth “hundreds of millions”, the precise value has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n
Airbus designs and manufactures wings for all its commercial aircraft at its Broughton site in North Wales.<\/p>\n
Minister for trade Anas Sarwar said: “This news shows British engineering is flying high with world-class innovation that puts our companies at the front of the pack.<\/p>\n
“Building these engines and wings brings good quality jobs to Derby and Broughton, and means UK expertise is at the heart of thousands of flights by one of the fastest-growing airlines around the world.”<\/p>\n
The engine involved, the Trent XWB-97, can operate using a 50% sustainable aviation fuel blend, with plans for it to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel in the future. <\/p>\n
This order follows Philippine Airlines’s previous order for nine Trent XWB-97-powered Airbus A350-1000 in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce has moved forward with a deal to power a new fleet of Airbus long-haul jets for Philippine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}