Aero engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has won a first-ever order from Fiji’s national carrier Air Pacific. The order, worth $210m (£134m), is for Trent 700 engines (pictured) to power three Airbus A330 aircraft.
Announcing the order at the Singapore Airshow, Dave Pflieger, Managing Director & CEO, Air Pacific, said: “The A330s will be our first new widebody aircraft, so the Trent 700 engines represent an exciting and significant investment in leading-edge operational technology and support service for the future of our business.”
The Trent 700, the only engine specifically designed for the A330, is the market leader for the aircraft, with more than 1,400 either in service or on order.
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About Ken Hurst
Ken Hurst began his career as a journalist in London over 30 years ago, working on a range of publications before moving on to weekly newspaper production in the newly-independent Zambia of the 1970s.
He returned to the UK where his work included spells on newspapers and magazines, before moving to head up Norwich Union’s corporate affairs division.
In the 1990s he moved on to freelance, co-own and publish the B2B audio magazine Sound and front the BBC radio Yesterday’s Papers programme. There followed six years as Business Editor at Britain’s biggest selling regional daily newspaper, The Eastern Daily Press, where he led an award-winning team and for whom he still writes a weekly socio/political comment column. Subsequently, he was Group Editorial Director at CBM, responsible for its UK and US magazine output – including The Manufacturer magazine – research-driven industry reports and live events content. Currently he is Contributing Editor at Works Management magazine publisher Findlay Media and Chairman of the consumer publishing house TNT Multimedia Ltd.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the British Association of Communicators in Business.
Aero engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has won a first-ever order from Fiji’s national carrier Air Pacific. The order, worth $210m (£134m), is for Trent 700 engines (pictured) to power three Airbus A330 aircraft.
