Airbus said it's looking to exceed its 2018 targets by delivering over 67 aircraft to Indian airliners this year as engine issues have been resolved. “We plan to have an impressive number of deliveries this year with our supply chain in place,” Anand Stanley, managing director and chief executive officer of Airbus India and South Asia, told BloombergQuint ahead of Aero India in Bengaluru.
Supply-chain issues and problems with Pratt & Whitney engines had derailed delivery schedule for the French manufacturer. Issues with engines had grounded planes ordered by IndiGo last year.
That's getting resolved, said Stanley. “On the Pratt & Whitney engines, we have seen a reliability of 99.6 percent,” he said. “In the last 12 months, we have been very focused in working with the engine partners, the airlines and the regulatory authorities proactively.”
Stanley said Airbus made a number of software changes and fixes and, wherever required, retrofits. “The Indian fleet has seen 99 percent retrofits and in the next two months we will complete all of them.”
That led to three to fourfold reduction in engine issues. So for every 1000 hours, the reliability issue is now at 0.02 against the global benchmark of 0.05, he said.
Planes sent to India accounted for 8 percent of the global deliveries in 2018, Stanley said.
20/02/19 Sajeet Manghat/Bloomberg Quint
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Supply-chain issues and problems with Pratt & Whitney engines had derailed delivery schedule for the French manufacturer. Issues with engines had grounded planes ordered by IndiGo last year.
That's getting resolved, said Stanley. “On the Pratt & Whitney engines, we have seen a reliability of 99.6 percent,” he said. “In the last 12 months, we have been very focused in working with the engine partners, the airlines and the regulatory authorities proactively.”
Stanley said Airbus made a number of software changes and fixes and, wherever required, retrofits. “The Indian fleet has seen 99 percent retrofits and in the next two months we will complete all of them.”
That led to three to fourfold reduction in engine issues. So for every 1000 hours, the reliability issue is now at 0.02 against the global benchmark of 0.05, he said.
Planes sent to India accounted for 8 percent of the global deliveries in 2018, Stanley said.
20/02/19 Sajeet Manghat/Bloomberg Quint
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