Rolls-Royce has announced that LATAM Airlines has selected the Trent 1000 XE engine to power three Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The order marks LATAM’s return to the Trent customer base and is the latest in a sequence of widebody powerplant wins for the Derby-built turbofan family. Technically, the Trent 1000 XE bundles upgrades from Rolls-Royce’s certified two-phase durability enhancement programme, including a re-engineered high-pressure turbine blade that increases cooling air flow by 40%. The Company says the upgrade more than doubles time-on-wing relative to its predecessor, a metric that is increasingly the deciding factor in widebody campaigns where airlines are sensitive…
