GE Aerospace Announces AerCap Selects GEnx Engines to Power 15 Additional Boeing 787 Dreamliners
United Kingdom, July 21 -- GE Aerospace announced that AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap") has selected the GEnx-1B engine to power an additional 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners. AerCap, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is the world's largest owner of Boeing 787 aircraft and has a portfolio of approximately 200 GEnx engines owned and on order. Today, the GEnx boasts a 99.98% dispatch reliability rate and stays on-wing at a rate three times higher than competing engines.The long-haul flights the GEnx engine powers traverse some of Earth's harshest environments. Over the last decade, GE Aerospace has upgraded the GEnx engine's high-pressure turbine blades and combustor coating technology, more than doubling time on wing in harsh environments.The GEnx-...
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