Originally Posted by
Kerosene Kraut
They are now said to have picked RR finally.
Described here
https://www.airlineratings.com/news/...sir-tim-clark/
along with some hard words for Airbus, and more particularly the "engine manufacturers". A bit general, but I wonder who he is obliquely having a shot at. I seriously wonder if the offer of the EA engine on the next A380s, after it seems to have ended production, was a sales team initiative that production wouldn't do, and Emirates wasted time and money looking at it.
Worst damning from him is for P&W, who of course are not on the Emirates fleet.
“I’m not saying GTF is a failure, it should work, I am not altogether sure why it hasn’t worked ..."