It's engines that drive big aircraft orders
Improvements in fuel economy boosting jet sales
[PARIS] Behind the eye-popping aircraft deals - Boeing received over a US$100 billion in orders at the recent Dubai air show - it is in large part the engine makers who are driving the mega sales, say experts.
They may not be as well-known as Boeing or Airbus, but the major engine manufacturers - US companies General Electric and Pratt and Whitney, Britain's Rolls-Royce and France's Safran - account for major part of the aviation market.
Engines account for about a quarter of the total cost of an aircraft, according to Richard Ab…
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