CFM Dominates Engine Order News at Paris Show
CFM racked up $14 billion in sales during the Paris show week, with Rolls-Royce and IAE also doing new business.
During Paris Air Show week, airlines ordered 440 new Leap engines to power a mix of Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family aircraft. (Photo: CFM International)

In the slipstream of more strong airliner orders at this week’s Paris Air Show, engine manufacturers enjoyed a flurry of sales. In turn, following on from the new orders came numerous maintenance program agreements.


Leading the pack was CFM International, which reported deals worth around $14 billion, including support contracts. Ten separate agreements, saw the GE-Safran further boost its backlog of Leap turbofans for the Boeing 737 Max (-1B) and Airbus A320neo (-1A) new generation narrowbody, as well as for the CFM56 engines powering the existing 737/A320 family.


Leasing groups AerCap Holdings, GE Capital Aviation Service, Minsheng Financial Leasing and SMBC Aviation Capital, between them ordered 440 Leap engines (a mix of the -1A and -1B versions). Korean Air ordered 60 Leap-1Bs and Garuda Indonesia reconfirmed a commitment for the same engine. China-based Minsheng also ordered 20 CFM56-7B engines, along with Chinese low-cost carrer Ruili Airlines (60), Qatar Airways (16), Japan’s Peach Aviation (6) and Sriwijaya Air (4).


Rolls-Royce won $500 million in new business from Ethiopian Airlines covering Trent 1000 engines and a TotalCare support package for its six Boeing 787-9 widebodies. Italy’s Neos ordered the same engines to power three leased 787s.


Leasing group BOC Aviation chose IAE’s V2500 turbofans to power 14 A320ceo aircraft. CIT Group selected the engines for five A321ceos it ordered in March 2015, as did Hungary-based carrier Wizz Air for 17 A321ceos it has on order.