Forecasting order announcements for engines worth up to $10 billion by the end of this week’s Farnborough International airshow, GE Aviation president and chief executive David Joyce described the atmosphere so far as “more subdued” than the “wild” Paris Air Show last year, but nevertheless still “very positive.” Joyce cited backlogs of “six to seven years” for General Electric’s widebody-airliner engines, with outstanding orders for its CFM International joint venture with Safran covering “four to five” years’ production.
With GE ramping-up manufacturing rates to match buoyant market requirements, he expects to see an almost 10-percent production increase for GE, CFMI and the GE/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance (EA) commercial powerplants this year, from 2,200 in 2011 to 2,400, and a similar 200-unit growth next year to 2,600 engines. Widebody-engine deliveries are said to have doubled since 2009 to this year’s planned 480, with production of 564 foreseen in 2013.
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