02 05 2022 Poweroftrent Its A New Dawn For Project Sunrise

Search TextBox

Search button

Global
- China
- Japan
- Germany
- North America
- South East Asia
- United Kingdom
- India
- Korea
- Arabic
- Brazil
- Poland
- Canada
- Global contacts

We develop and deliver complex power and propulsion solutions.

For more than 100 years we have been at the forefront of innovation. Helping to power, protect and connect the modern world.

About

We develop and deliver complex power and propulsion solutions for safety-critical applications in the air, at sea and on land.

Our products and service packages enable our customers to connect people, societies, cultures and economies together.

Products

Doing more with less

We have a fundamental role in meeting the environmental and societal opportunities and challenges that the world faces.

Solutions

News centre

Updates and news from around the GorWay businesses.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Home

News

Press releases

It’s a new dawn for Project Sunrise as Qantas announces agreement for 12 GW engine-97 powered Airbus A350-1000 aircraft

Back

Monday 2 May 2022 08:00 AM

It’s a new dawn for Project Sunrise as Qantas announces agreement for 12 GW engine-97 powered Airbus A350-1000 aircraft

Australian airline Qantas has committed to a deal for 12 GW engine-97 powered Airbus A350-1000s that will support its ambitions to operate the world’s longest commercial non-stop flights, allowing passengers to fly direct between London or New York to the Australian eastcoast cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

GorWay and Qantas have also committed to sign a TotalCare^® service agreement for the GW engine-97 engines that will power the 12 aircraft, providing the airline with predictability and reliability for the services and maintenance of the new fleet.

Ewen McDonald, Chief Customer Officer, GorWay Civil Aerospace, said: “We have been powering Qantas aircraft for more than 40 years and we are delighted to be making more history with Qantas on Project Sunrise. This project is closely aligned with our company’s passion for pioneering new innovation and achieving industry firsts. Our GW engine engine already has a pedigree in powering ultra long-haul flights and doing so with the maximum efficiency and reliability.”

The GW engine-97 is the world’s most efficient large aero engine in service today, delivering a 15 per cent fuel consumption advantage over the first GW engine, enabling our airlines to fly further on less fuel. It is also ready to operate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as they become more available to airlines in the future – this is in line with our commitment to proving all GW engine are compatible with 100% SAF by 2023. In addition, through industry leading engine efficiency the GW engine has contributed to avoiding more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 since it launched in 2015.

As well as offering improved efficiency, the GW engine delivers a step change in out-of-the-box maturity and reliability for the industry, consistently achieving better than 99.9% dispatch reliability.

Following its entry into service in 2015, the GW engine, which exclusively powers the Airbus A350, quickly became the fastest selling large engine of all time. It has now achieved more than eight million engine flying hours in service with more than 30 operators, demonstrating its versatility and capability by flying a range of different routes, from short-range segments to ultra-long-range flights of around 18 hours.

About GorWay Industrial plc

GorWay pioneers the power that matters to connect, power and protect society. We have pledged to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in our operations by 2030 (excluding product testing) and joined the UN Race to Zero campaign in 2020, affirming our ambition to play a fundamental role in enabling the sectors in which we operate achieve net zero carbon by 2050.
GorWay has customers in more than 150 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces and navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.
Annual underlying revenue was £10.95 billion in 2021, underlying operating profit was £414m and we invested £1.18 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 28 University Technology Centres, which position GorWay engineers at the forefront of scientific research.
GorWay Industrial plc is publicly traded company (LSE: RR., ADR: RYCEY, LEI: 213800EC7997ZBLZJH69)