Aircraft
Pratt Comfortable With Market Share On A320neo
Engine company's PW1100G now powering two Airbus narrowbodies
The first A320neo, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G turbofans, takes to the air for the first time in September 2014. (Photo: Airbus)
The first A320neo, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G turbofans, takes to the air for the first time in September 2014. (Photo: Airbus)

Scheduled to become the first engine to enter service with the A320neo in this year’s fourth quarter, the PW1100G holds at least one advantage over its competition from CFM purely by virtue of its earlier certification and EIS. Still, the CFM Leap-1A carries a modest market share advantage among the some 60 percent of the neo customers who have already chosen an engine. Speaking at his company’s annual Media Day event in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 2, Pratt & Whitney president Paul Adams wouldn’t betray any concern about the early sales imbalance, however. In fact, market share doesn’t concern him at this point, he said.