Engines
How P&W Expects to Boost GTF Advantage Engine’s Durability
First of the new geared turbofans are now in service with United Airlines
Pratt & Whitney GTF Advantage engine
Pratt & Whitney is in the early stages of rolling out its GTF Advantage engines to airline customers.

The first GTF Advantage engines entered service earlier this month on an Airbus A321XLR operated by United Airlines. For RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney, which operates on the timescale of decades-long engine programs, the operational deployment of its next-generation geared turbofan (GTF) was worth celebrating.

“It is really super exciting for us,” Matt Teicholz, P&W's program chief engineer, commercial engines, recently told Leeham News and Analysis (LNA). “It has been about a decade since our last entry into service. It doesn’t happen very often for us; I don’t know when the next one’s going to be, so it’s a really invigorating moment."

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