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CFM International has secured orders from lessors CDB Aviation and ALAFCO for Leap-1A engines to power incoming Airbus A320neo narrowbodies.

As an incumbent supplier to an aircraft programme, there is always the risk that your airframer customer will instead consider one of your rivals for the position, or, as has increasingly been seen – opt to take that capability in house.

[Press Release] LE BOURGET — 18 June 2019 – AirAsia and CFM International today finalized an agreement for the purchase of 200 LEAP-1A engines to power the airline’s 100 Airbus A321neo. The airplane order and intent to purchase the engines were announced in July 2016.

[Press Release)] LE BOURGET, France – 18 June 2019 — Dublin-based international aircraft leasing company Avolon today announced it has selected CFM International's LEAP-1A engine to power an additional 70 Airbus A320neo aircraft. The order is valued at $2.06 billion U.S. at list price.

[Press Release] LE BOURGET, France — 18 June 2019 — Indonesia’s PT Garuda Maintenance Facility AeroAsia (GMF AeroAsia) and CFM International today signed a Material Service Agreement. Together with this Materials contract, the current CFM56-7B license agreement for overhaul has been extended for an additional five years and a new five-year license for CFM56-5B overhauls added.

The decision by IndiGo to order Leap-1As to power 280 Airbus A320neos represents a key win for CFM International over the airline’s incumbent supplier Pratt & Whitney.

NEW DELHI: IndiGo, the world’s largest customer for the Airbus 320/21 new engine option (Neo) aircraft, has opted for CFM engines over the snag-prone Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines for this plane. The low cost carrier has placed an order worth $20 billion for CFM’s LEAP-1A engines for 280 A320 and A321 Neo planes, making it the largest ever single engine order ever. The contract includes spare engines, and an overhaul support agreement through a long-term service agreement.

Later this year, CFM International will make available cleaning carts that will allow operators to remove build-ups of deposited carbon from the fuel nozzles of their Leap engines while the engines and fuel nozzles remain on-wing.

CFM International is now delivering all new Leap-1A engines for installation on A320neo-family jets on time. While deliveries of Leap-1Bs to Boeing for 737 Maxes are still incurring minor delays, the engine-manufacturing joint venture expects to overcome remaining Leap-1B delivery delays within weeks.