Rolls-Royce secures incremental order from United Airlines

Rolls-Royce is to provide additional Trent XWB engines to United Airlines following the airline’s announcement that it will update and expand the number of Airbus A350 XWB aircraft on order from 35 A350-1000 to 45 A350-900. Long-term TotalCare service support will be provided for all the engines. The Trent XWB has already delivered exceptional levels of performance since it entered passenger service in 2015, with over 1,600 engines ordered by 45 customers worldwide. The manufacturing backlog stands are more than 1,500 engines, representing over 6 years of production from Rolls-Royce’s facilities in the UK and Germany.