Rolls-Royce Weighs Tweaking Engine to Give a Lift to Airbus A380
- Previous changes reduced fuel consumption as much as 1.5%
- Comment follows unveiled ‘plus’ version of superjumbo jet
Eric Schulz, president of civil aerospace at Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, discusses the market for the company's engines and technological improvements planned for their products. He speaks with Bloomberg's Guy Johnson from the Paris Air Show on 'Bloomberg Markets.' (Source: Bloomberg)
Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is seeking ways to upgrade its engines for Airbus SE’s A380 as the planemaker attempts to win orders for the slow-selling superjumbo jet, the company’s biggest.
“We are contemplating what we can do over and above with Airbus,” Eric Schulz, Rolls-Royce’s head of civil aviation, said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “As soon as we mature a new technology we have a tendency to go back and roll it back to the product. We have done quite a lot of this already on the Trent 900.”