Airbus conferma A320 NEO
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Airbus offers new fuel saving engine options for A320 Family
1 December 2010
Airbus has decided to offer for its best-selling A320 Family new fuel saving engines as an option. Airlines have the choice between CFM International’s LEAP-X engine and Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1100G engine. Known as the A320neo, this new engine option also incorporates fuel-saving large wing tip devices called Sharklets. Airbus will start deliveries of the A320neo Family in spring 2016.
The A320neo will not only deliver significant fuel savings of up to 15 percent, which represents up to 3,600 tonnes of CO2 savings annually per A320neo. In addition, A320neo customers will benefit from a double-digit reduction in NOx emissions, reduced engine noise, lower operating costs and up to 500nm (950 km) more range or two tonnes more payload.
As new engine technologies become available in the middle of this decade, Airbus is committed to providing its customers with the latest and most eco-efficient technologies to continuously improve aircraft performance and airline operations while reducing the environmental impact. Airbus sees a market potential of 4,000 A320neo Family aircraft over the next 15 years.
“We are confident that the A320neo will be a great success across all markets and with all types of operators, offering them maximum benefit with minimum change. We are leveraging a reliable, mature aircraft and are making it even more efficient and environmentally friendly,” said Tom Enders, Airbus President and CEO.
Over the past months, Airbus has taken the time to carefully assess and weigh up the benefits of the A320neo business case with the allocation of the highly skilled engineering resources needed while at the same time securing the engineering skills required on other Airbus aircraft programmes.
"Finding the necessary resources for the A320neo wasn't exactly a walk in the park,” Enders added. “The enabler was to devise a stringent phasing of critical engineering assets throughout our various development programmes and to optimise the management and organisation of all our programmes and R&T projects. Our international engineering centres, suppliers and partners play a big role in this.”
Today’s A320neo announcement follows the approval given by the Board of Directors of EADS, Airbus’ shareholder company.
The new engine option is offered on the A321, A320 and A319 models which will require limited modifications, primarily to the wing and pylon areas. The A320neo will have over 95 percent airframe commonality with the standard A320 Family. The unique Airbus operational commonality enables operators of several Airbus Family types to continue to benefit from lower pilot and maintenance training costs.
Airbus launched its new “Sharklet” large wingtip devices, specially designed to enhance the eco-efficiency and payload-range performance of the A320 Family. Offered as a forward-fit option, Sharklets are expected to result in at least 3.5 percent lower fuel burn over longer sectors. The A320 will be the first model fitted with Sharklets, which will be delivered around the end of 2012, to be followed by the other A320 Family models from 2013.
The A320 Family is recognized as the benchmark single-aisle aircraft family. With over 6,700 aircraft sold, and more than 4,400 aircraft delivered to some 310 customers and operators worldwide, it is the world’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft family. With 99.7 per cent reliability and extended servicing periods, the A320 Family has the lowest operating costs of any single aisle aircraft.
Link su airbus.com: http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentr...w-fuel-saving-engine-options-for-a320-family/
1 December 2010
Airbus has decided to offer for its best-selling A320 Family new fuel saving engines as an option. Airlines have the choice between CFM International’s LEAP-X engine and Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1100G engine. Known as the A320neo, this new engine option also incorporates fuel-saving large wing tip devices called Sharklets. Airbus will start deliveries of the A320neo Family in spring 2016.
The A320neo will not only deliver significant fuel savings of up to 15 percent, which represents up to 3,600 tonnes of CO2 savings annually per A320neo. In addition, A320neo customers will benefit from a double-digit reduction in NOx emissions, reduced engine noise, lower operating costs and up to 500nm (950 km) more range or two tonnes more payload.
As new engine technologies become available in the middle of this decade, Airbus is committed to providing its customers with the latest and most eco-efficient technologies to continuously improve aircraft performance and airline operations while reducing the environmental impact. Airbus sees a market potential of 4,000 A320neo Family aircraft over the next 15 years.
“We are confident that the A320neo will be a great success across all markets and with all types of operators, offering them maximum benefit with minimum change. We are leveraging a reliable, mature aircraft and are making it even more efficient and environmentally friendly,” said Tom Enders, Airbus President and CEO.
Over the past months, Airbus has taken the time to carefully assess and weigh up the benefits of the A320neo business case with the allocation of the highly skilled engineering resources needed while at the same time securing the engineering skills required on other Airbus aircraft programmes.
"Finding the necessary resources for the A320neo wasn't exactly a walk in the park,” Enders added. “The enabler was to devise a stringent phasing of critical engineering assets throughout our various development programmes and to optimise the management and organisation of all our programmes and R&T projects. Our international engineering centres, suppliers and partners play a big role in this.”
Today’s A320neo announcement follows the approval given by the Board of Directors of EADS, Airbus’ shareholder company.
The new engine option is offered on the A321, A320 and A319 models which will require limited modifications, primarily to the wing and pylon areas. The A320neo will have over 95 percent airframe commonality with the standard A320 Family. The unique Airbus operational commonality enables operators of several Airbus Family types to continue to benefit from lower pilot and maintenance training costs.
Airbus launched its new “Sharklet” large wingtip devices, specially designed to enhance the eco-efficiency and payload-range performance of the A320 Family. Offered as a forward-fit option, Sharklets are expected to result in at least 3.5 percent lower fuel burn over longer sectors. The A320 will be the first model fitted with Sharklets, which will be delivered around the end of 2012, to be followed by the other A320 Family models from 2013.
The A320 Family is recognized as the benchmark single-aisle aircraft family. With over 6,700 aircraft sold, and more than 4,400 aircraft delivered to some 310 customers and operators worldwide, it is the world’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft family. With 99.7 per cent reliability and extended servicing periods, the A320 Family has the lowest operating costs of any single aisle aircraft.
Link su airbus.com: http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentr...w-fuel-saving-engine-options-for-a320-family/
Airbus green light for A320 engine offer
By Pilita Clark in London
Published: December 1 2010 13:31 | Last updated: December 1 2010 13:31
Airbus has finally given the green light to a €1bn ($1.3bn) engine upgrade for its best-selling, single-aisle passenger jets, in a move likely to shake up the global aircraft industry’s competitive landscape for years to come.
After months of studying what some analysts say is a risky step, the Toulouse-based aircraft maker will offer its customers a new engine costing about $6m more on its A320 family of jets from 2016, which it says will burn up to 15 per cent less fuel.
The move increases pressure on US rival, Boeing, which has also been considering either a similar engine revamp for its 737 family of jets or developing a new model.
Both manufacturers have been forced to act by rivals in Canada, China, Brazil, Japan and Russia, whose new fuel-efficient jets threaten the long-standing dominance of Airbus and Boeing, whose A320 and 737 families make up 44 per cent of commercial jets in service.
Boeing brushed aside Airbus’s move on Wednesday, saying it was only trying to catch up with the “superior performance” of its latest 737 jets. But many analysts believe Airbus’s decision will force the US group to act, even if it would be cheaper for both to do nothing. “On a pure duopoly basis it would be better for Airbus and Boeing not to do this,” said Nick Cunningham of Agency Partners in London, adding that Airbus’s move “pushes back the Chinese threat by up to a decade”.
However, chief Airbus salesman John Leahy said “the Chinese have very deep pockets” and were unlikely to be deterred.
But he added that the new engine option would make the business case “very difficult” for the new CSeries jet that Canada’s Bombardier hopes to have in service by 2013. “It’s going to be an uphill battle for them,” he told the FT.
Some analysts say Airbus could be creating problems for itself with what it is calling the A320NEO.
“It is hard to find too many people in the banking and finance world who think the NEO is a good idea,” said Paul Sheridan of the Ascend aviation consultancy. He added that if Airbus ended up developing an entirely new model jet in 10 years’ time, the re-engined NEO jets risked being “stuck with the dreaded ‘interim’ label” and poor residual values.
Airbus’s move is also likely to push UK engine maker, Rolls-Royce, into a diminishing position in the lucrative single-aisle market.
The new engines will come from Pratt & Whitney of the US or CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Snecma.
Although Rolls is joint leader with Pratt & Whitney of the International Aero Engines consortium, whose engines are on 42 per cent of existing A320 family, Mr Leahy said it had declined to be involved in the new venture with Pratt, “so we decided to go directly ahead with Pratt & Whitney”.
“The doors are shut on Rolls at this point,” he said.
Airbus has no firm orders for the new engine option jets, but Mr Leahy said he was in discussions with several airlines, including Lufthansa, AirAsia and India’s budget carrier, IndiGo, all of whom said they were keen to look at the new plan on Wednesday.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010.
By Pilita Clark in London
Published: December 1 2010 13:31 | Last updated: December 1 2010 13:31
Airbus has finally given the green light to a €1bn ($1.3bn) engine upgrade for its best-selling, single-aisle passenger jets, in a move likely to shake up the global aircraft industry’s competitive landscape for years to come.
After months of studying what some analysts say is a risky step, the Toulouse-based aircraft maker will offer its customers a new engine costing about $6m more on its A320 family of jets from 2016, which it says will burn up to 15 per cent less fuel.
The move increases pressure on US rival, Boeing, which has also been considering either a similar engine revamp for its 737 family of jets or developing a new model.
Both manufacturers have been forced to act by rivals in Canada, China, Brazil, Japan and Russia, whose new fuel-efficient jets threaten the long-standing dominance of Airbus and Boeing, whose A320 and 737 families make up 44 per cent of commercial jets in service.
Boeing brushed aside Airbus’s move on Wednesday, saying it was only trying to catch up with the “superior performance” of its latest 737 jets. But many analysts believe Airbus’s decision will force the US group to act, even if it would be cheaper for both to do nothing. “On a pure duopoly basis it would be better for Airbus and Boeing not to do this,” said Nick Cunningham of Agency Partners in London, adding that Airbus’s move “pushes back the Chinese threat by up to a decade”.
However, chief Airbus salesman John Leahy said “the Chinese have very deep pockets” and were unlikely to be deterred.
But he added that the new engine option would make the business case “very difficult” for the new CSeries jet that Canada’s Bombardier hopes to have in service by 2013. “It’s going to be an uphill battle for them,” he told the FT.
Some analysts say Airbus could be creating problems for itself with what it is calling the A320NEO.
“It is hard to find too many people in the banking and finance world who think the NEO is a good idea,” said Paul Sheridan of the Ascend aviation consultancy. He added that if Airbus ended up developing an entirely new model jet in 10 years’ time, the re-engined NEO jets risked being “stuck with the dreaded ‘interim’ label” and poor residual values.
Airbus’s move is also likely to push UK engine maker, Rolls-Royce, into a diminishing position in the lucrative single-aisle market.
The new engines will come from Pratt & Whitney of the US or CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Snecma.
Although Rolls is joint leader with Pratt & Whitney of the International Aero Engines consortium, whose engines are on 42 per cent of existing A320 family, Mr Leahy said it had declined to be involved in the new venture with Pratt, “so we decided to go directly ahead with Pratt & Whitney”.
“The doors are shut on Rolls at this point,” he said.
Airbus has no firm orders for the new engine option jets, but Mr Leahy said he was in discussions with several airlines, including Lufthansa, AirAsia and India’s budget carrier, IndiGo, all of whom said they were keen to look at the new plan on Wednesday.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010.