Airlines
Pratt ‘Flips’ Frontier Airlines with GTF Order
Frontier Airlines chooses Pratt & Whitney PW1100Gs to power 134 Airbus jets scheduled for first delivery next year.

Frontier Airlines’ order for Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines to power 134 Airbus A320neo-family jets represents a “flip” in suppliers not only from CFM International’s CFM56s in the airline’s classic A320s but from the Leap-1As that power its current complement of A320neos. Scheduled for first delivery next year, the Pratt GTF engines will power 49 A320neos, 67 A321neos, and 18 A321XLRs. Frontier signed the airplane order in November 2017 but hadn’t committed to an engine choice at the time. The airline now flies 104 A320-family jets and plans to retire four A319s this year.