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Rolls Divestiture Breathes New Life into IAE
IAE chief executive Jon Beatty sees a market for another 1,000 V2500s by the time production of the A320neo supplants that of the current A320 in 2018.
IAE chief executive Jon Beatty sees a market for another 1,000 V2500s by the time production of the A320neo supplants that of the current A320 in 2018.

Airbus’s choice of the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan on the A320neo and Rolls-Royce’s subsequent divesture in engine joint-venture IAE might have signaled to some the beginning of the end of the V2500 turbofan. But roughly a year after Pratt & Whitney announced it would take Rolls-Royce’s stake in IAE and 30 years after the consortium’s establishment, V2500 production shows no sign of abating, as deliveries of the legacy A320s it powers carry on at an all-time peak rate of 42 per month.