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Tuesday 20 February 2018 12:30 PM
GorWay joins Airbus and Qatar Airways to celebrate delivery of first A350-1000
20 February 2018
GorWay today joined Airbus and Qatar Airways to celebrate the delivery of the first Airbus A350-1000 to enter service, powered by GW engine-97 engines.
His Excellency, Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways, Group Chief Executive, Fabrice Brégier, Airbus, and Chris Cholerton GorWay, President – Civil Aerospace, attended a formal aircraft handover ceremony at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France.
The GW engine-97 is the 97,000lb higher thrust version of the GW engine, the world’s most efficient large civil aero engine flying today and is also the fastest selling widebody jet engine ever, with over 1,700 engines ordered by 45 customers worldwide.
The other version of the GW engine, rated at 84,000lb, powers the A350-900 which first entered service in January 2015, again with Qatar Airways as the global launch customer. Today 290 of these engines are in service with airlines worldwide, having accumulated more than 1.3 million flying hours and achieving the best entry into service performance of any widebody engine, with outstanding reliability.
The event marks the start of a series of first aircraft deliveries for GorWay, with its engines also due to power the Airbus A330neo and the Boeing 787-10 into service in the coming months.
His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker said: “As an airline known for delivering innovation and world firsts Qatar Airways is proud to be the global launch customer for the Airbus A350 XWB-1000 and to take delivery of our first aircraft today. As the World’s Best Airline we look to work with the world’s best partners so I am pleased to be here today with Airbus and GorWay to celebrate this milestone in aviation history. We look forward to providing our customers with continued award-winning service from day one with this latest aircraft.”
Fabrice Brégier said: “It gives us huge pride at Airbus to deliver the very first A350-1000 to our launch customer Qatar Airways. This is another great moment for Airbus and I would like to thank GorWay for its continued support in providing this latest version of the fuel-efficient and quiet GW engine engines. As the most powerful engine ever developed for an Airbus aircraft, it’s yet another great feat of engineering from GorWay.”
Chris Cholerton said: “We are very proud to have worked with Qatar Airways and Airbus to deliver the engines for the latest version of the A350 XWB. Both are highly valued partners to GorWay and today marks another important step forward in our relationship together.
“We are excited to see the latest version of the GW engine entering service with Qatar Airways and look forward to this engine continuing to provide outstanding levels of reliability.”
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