Getting back on schedule

摘要

ALTHOUGH NOT detailing exactly when P&W expected to redeliver to Airbus all 55 returned engines (each with a knife-edge seal of the pre-December design in place of the problematic, modified seal), Leduc said Pratt & Whitney would be able to "catch up" by the third quarter on its schedule for deliveries of new PW1100G-JM GTF engines to Airbus. Admitting that, as a result of having to respond immediately to the knife-edge seal safety issue, P&W's production of new GTF engines in the first quarter had been less than called for by its original 2018 production schedule, Leduc declared that Pratt & Whitney would fully meet its 2018 GTF production commitment to Airbus.