Pratt & Whitney

Go First may take legal action against Pratt & Whitney over engine issues

IndiGo is the only other Indian airline that uses PW engines on its A320 planes

Go First may sue Pratt and Whitney over reliability issues in their engines

Go First asked for compensation for the malfunctioning engines that resulted in business losses, PW refused to pay the money, which resulted in a violation of the contractual agreement

Three women pilot global aircraft engine maker Pratt and Whitney in India

A glance of the International Women's Day programme to be held at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on Wednesday shows two women piloting the course of global aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney in India.

Pratt & Whitney opens India Engineering Center facility in Karnataka

The new IEC facility is co-located with Pratt & Whitney's India Capabilities Centre (ICC), which opened in 2022 to provide integrated global supply chain support.

Aircraft engine maker P&W bosses fly to India to soothe customers' worries

Senior executives meet industry leaders and civil aviation secretary after slow delivery of engines

Go First blames Covid-19, Pratt & Whitney as losses double in FY22

Go First said it has been sanctioned additional loans of Rs 1,142 crore in FY22 from its bankers

Boeing tells airlines to ground 777 aircraft after engine failure

Two fan blades were fractured on the United flight, the National Transportation Safety Board said

P&W-made GTF engines complete 2 million flight hours in India

While GoAir has only A320NEO planes in its fleet powered by these engines, IndiGo has A321NEO as well along with A320NEO planes

High GST on aircraft components forcing P&W to go abroad for maintenance

High GST rate on aircraft engine components has been forcing Pratt & Whitney to go abroad for engine maintenance despite having a collaboration with Air India's engineering subsidiary AIESL for the servicing, according to an industry source. Engine components attract as higher as 18 per cent goods and service tax (GST), which makes the business unviable in India, and the engine maker wants the government to bring it in parity with 5 per cent GST as in the case of aircraft components, the source said. In February, Pratt & Whitney (P&W), which has supplied its Geared Turbo Fan (GTF) engines in large numbers to IndiGo and GoAir for their Airbus A320neo family planes, inked a pact with Air India Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) to service these engines at the latter's MRO facility in Mumbai. A P&W spokesperson in a statement to PTI, however, said that collaboration with AIESL remains strong, despite the challenges faced by the industry due to the coronavirus pandemic. "We .

DGCA set to remove restrictions on Pratt&Whitney powered A320 Neo aircraft

Due to restrictions, IndiGo & Go Air were forced to use older A320 CEO aircraft, which consume more fuel

GoAir pilots shut down P&W engine mid-air, even after fixes: Report

The twin-engine jet, operated by Go Airlines India Ltd, landed safely using its other engine in the western city of Ahmadabad on Sept 19

Top headlines: Wipro Q2 profit dips, GoAir pilots stop P&W engine mid-air

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Pushed by DGCA and IndiGo, P&W mulls $250-mn plant for engine MRO in India

India ranks way down the pecking order in global aviation

Engine snag forces Hyderabad-bound IndiGo flight to return to Mumbai

This is the 23rd engine snag the airline has faced with Pratt engines in the last two years

GoAir's Bengaluru to Phuket flight returns due to technical glitch

The airline said that as precautionary measure the flight returned back to Bangalore.

Delay by Airbus, P&W in aircraft delivery forces GoAir to suspend flights

Budget airline GoAir on Thursday said it is temporarily suspending some flights due to Airbus and Pratt & Whitney deferring delivery of planes and engines, respectively. In the last four weeks, the carrier said, it has gone through unplanned grounding of aircraft, which were supporting its current operation of fleet. "Now, we have been informed by our business partners Airbus and Pratt & Whitney of their inability to deliver previously promised aircraft and engines through March 9, 2020, that are required to support our current growth. "As a result, we have been forced to temporarily suspend certain flights that are part of our network, schedule and open for sale," it said in a statement. Specific details were not disclosed. Currently, the airline operates more than 325 daily flights and has around 60 planes in its fleet.

DGCA extends deadline till May 31 for IndiGo to replace P&W engines

DGCA earlier directed budget carrier IndiGo to replace Pratt and Whitney (P&W) engines on 97 Airbus A320neo aircraft by 31 January

Boeing 737 Max crisis: From TCS to Infosys, IT firms risk $1-bn hit

Top Indian IT firms provide services like application development, testing, engineering, avionics, and business process management for the Boeing 737 Max programme

Eyes on the sky: GoAir strengthens rostering to prevent flight disruptions

GoAir cancelled almost 40 flights on November 23 and 24, during which it also reported turn back of two if its aircraft to the departing airport due to snags

DGCA tells IndiGo to replace unmodified P&W engines in Neo aircraft

People in the know said the move would impact around 110 engines, virtually putting a spanner on the expansion plans of IndiGo - counted among the fastest growing airlines in the world