I believe it’s engines produced 2015 to 3rd quarter 2021… so quite a few of them.

Spoke to MX the other day to ask how planes are grounded… but aren’t. Said essentially between now and 2026(?) The affected ones are going down eventually, and when they do it’ll be for long while.

I believe one EU carrier with an all NEO fleet essentially closed up shop, another is doing wet leasing, and some are finding planes anywhere they can.

Can you elaborate more on this? Are you talking about the -700s that are parked because of lack of pilots?

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I believe the debbil dawg Sgt is talking about the Pratt geared turbofan's on the 320 NEOs. Issues with some unobtanium coating inside them make parts crack at a higher incidence rate than normal so they have to pull the motors. Once the motors are off, I've read it's a 300 day process to replace all the parts and get the engine back on a wing.

P&W builds good motors, but dang they’ve been plagued with issues like this for decades. Not the first time in the last few years they’ve had a crippling thermal coating issue. Tough that they have such a market share of the aviation engine industry.

This is not an "Airbus issue", the engineers at Airbus did not choose the metals in the PW 1000G GTF engine when they designed the Airbus.

The engine indeed is used at Frontier and Spirit on SOME of their new airplanes. The GTF engine is NOT used on any 737 to my knowledge.

Correct. The point of the thread was more, “thank god it wasn’t the Max for a change”.

It’s a major deal for airlines like Hawaiian who will have the entirety of their A321 fleet down for a while. But even for Spirit and Frontier. Their planners were counting on X number of airplanes and they’re finding out now that they’ll have to rejigger the whole schedule for fewer airplanes. That’s GOT to be a headache for the cubicle and calculator folks.