{"id":69621,"date":"2016-05-30T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=69621"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:35:41","slug":"airbus-a320neos-may-get-upgraded-pratt-whitney-engines-starting-this-summer-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-a320neos-may-get-upgraded-pratt-whitney-engines-starting-this-summer-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus A320neos may get upgraded Pratt &#038; Whitney engines starting this summer: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus expects to start getting the upgraded engines from Pratt &#038; Whitney in for its A320neo planes this &#8216;summer&#8217;, its chief operating officer Tom Williams said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Williams was speaking at the Airbus Innovation Days 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Williams didn&#8217;t immediately specify a month for the start of delivery of the upgraded engines. An airline executive in India said they should start coming in to airline customers by July. <\/p>\n<p>IndiGo, India&#8217;s biggest local airline by market share, has ordered 430 of the Neos, the upgraded version of the most popular passenger aircraft in the world. It has opted for Pratt &#038; Whitney engines only on the first 180. IndiGo has started getting deliveries of the aircraft. Rival budget carrier Go Air has ordered 72 of the planes. <\/p>\n<p>Airbus last December informed its customers that there would be a delay in deliveries in the Neo or New Engine Option. <\/p>\n<p>The main glitch was in the geared turbofan engine which takes some time to cool off before it restarts. Customers have been pushing Pratt &#038; Whitney to speed up the start time to 90 seconds from 180 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus expects to start getting the upgraded engines from Pratt &#038; Whitney in for its A320neo planes this &#8216;summer&#8217;, its chief operating officer Tom Williams said Monday. Williams was speaking at the Airbus Innovation Days 2016. Williams didn&#8217;t immediately specify a month for the start of delivery of the upgraded engines. An airline executive in India said they should start coming in to airline customers by July. IndiGo, India&#8217;s biggest local airline by market share, has ordered 430 of the Neos, the upgraded version of the most popular passenger aircraft in the world. It has opted for Pratt &#038; Whitney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}