Rolls-Royce Wins LATAM Back with Trent 1000 XE Order

LATAM Rejoins the Rolls-Royce Family – Who Is Next?

Winning a customer for six engines to power three aircraft might not make headlines, but winning back a customer who earlier selected your competitor’s product is different. Rolls-Royce hailed the return of LATAM to the family when it announced the selection of the Trent 1000 XE. The engine maker must be hoping more airlines will

Rolls-Royce wins LATAM back with Trent 1000 XE order

Rolls-Royce has won back LATAM Airlines as a Boeing 787 engine customer, securing an order to power three new Dreamliners with its upgraded Trent 1000 XE engines. The agreement marks a win for Rolls-Royce as it tries to rebuild confidence in the Trent 1000 after years of durability problems on earlier versions of the engine. LATAM had previously selected GE Aerospace GEnx engines for a 2023 follow-on order of 16 Boeing 787-9s after long-running …

Rolls-Royce wins back LATAM with Trent 1000 XE order

Rolls-Royce has been selected by LATAM Airlines to power three Boeing 787 Dreamliners with Trent 1000 XE engines. The Trent 1000 XE incorporates several upgrades following Rolls-Royce’s certified two-phase durability enhancement programme. This includes a re-engineered high-pressure turbine (HPT) blade, increasing cooling air flow by 40% and delivering more than double the time on wing compared with its predecessor. The combination of significan…

LATAM selects Rolls-Royce engines for three Boeing 787s, returning to Trent after earlier issues

Order comes after airline added GE-powered jets and follows a recent reappearance of Trent 1000 deals in Boeing data