Rolls-Royce announces orders worth $1.7bn during Farnborough
Rolls-Royce, set the seal on a successful Farnborough Air Show week by announcing it had secured $1.7 billion in new orders, although it has become traditional for the aerospace industry to 'squirrel' previously won orders in order to make its annual blockbuster orders announcement each July.
The company also boasted that two new Rolls-Royce powered aircraft made their Farnborough debut, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner (pictured) and the Airbus A400M.
Together with a clutch of orders for both its civil and defence service agreements, RR won orders for its Trent 700 aero engine totalling more than $1 billion for engines to power 17 Airbus A330s from Aeroflot, Russia's national airline and Garuda Indonesia Airlines. Air Transat ordered Trent 700EP (Enhanced Performance) engine kits, which are designed to improve efficiency and environmental performance while International Aero Engines, in which Rolls-Royce is a senior partner, received orders for V2500 engines from Yemenia, China Southern and Vietnam Airlines, with value to Rolls-Royce of around $470 million.
