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How can Rolls Royce charge so much more for their A380 engine?

From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 1 00:53:51 2018

Rolls-Royce Trent 900: Unit cost $46 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Trent_900

Engine Alliance GP7000: Unit cost $13.5 million (2006 dollars) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_Alliance_GP7000

In this news, Emirates pays $30.5 million for the Trent 900: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/emirates-says-rolls-royce-a380-engines-not-up-to-agreed-standard
$30.5 million is about 2/3 of $46 million.

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From David Powell@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Mar 9 18:17:48 2018

On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 3:53:52 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:

Rolls-Royce Trent 900: Unit cost $46 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Trent_900

Engine Alliance GP7000: Unit cost $13.5 million (2006 dollars) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_Alliance_GP7000

In this news, Emirates pays $30.5 million for the Trent 900: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/emirates-says-rolls-royce-a380-engines-not-up-to-agreed-standard
$30.5 million is about 2/3 of $46 million.

Maybe it is a European thing, the RR line keeps a European company running. Also, it is always nice to have two sources of engines, in case one has a problem. If your airliner comes with only one variety of engine, and that engine gets grounded, there
can be big problems. I am sure that RR has a solid enough reputation.

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