Sat, Apr 22, 2006
CFM Engines Power All SWA Planes
Coinciding with its announcement Thursday that the
airline will exercise purchase options on 79 new Boeing 737-700s,
Southwest Airlines has announced a $1 billion order (at list price)
for CFM56-7B engines to power the planes. The airline is scheduled
to take delivery of the new aircraft between 2007 and 2012.
"Since the CFM56-7B entered service, it has been delivering
industry-leading reliability. We owe much of that success to our
long-term relationship with Southwest and Boeing," said Bill
Clapper, executive vice president of CFM International. "Their
involvement in the development of this engine helped us produce a
high quality, highly reliable, cost-efficient product that has
rapidly become the backbone of single-aisle fleets around the
globe."
CFM56-7B engines are
produced by CFM International (CFM), a 50/50 joint company between
Snecma and General Electric Company and the world's leading
supplier of commercial aircraft engines with more than 15,500
engines in service with more than 450 operators worldwide.
Southwest Airlines currently serves 62 cities in 32 states and
operates more than 3,000 flights daily with an all CFM-powered
fleet. The airline -- CFM's largest commercial customer -- helped
launch both the CFM56-3 on the Boeing Classic 737s, and the
CFM56-7B on the Next-Generation 737 series.
"Southwest trusts CFM to power its entire fleet," said David
Romansky, sales director for CFM. "With this order, the United
State's largest domestic carrier has entrusted its future fleet to
CFM, as well. This order means a great deal to us because it
confirms that we have done our job well."
The order will take the airline's CFM56-powered 737 fleet to
more than 550 aircraft by 2012.
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