GE, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney: Who Rules the Engine Market? 

My preference is the engine that has been meticulously maintained by the airline.

My two fav engines are the GE90 and the RB211. Very different sounding and looking engines...but both are awesome, IMO.

Just one correction - For the last 50 years RR PLC has been a completely different company from the much smaller RR car company (single factory, subsidiary of BMW).

I do get a sense of national pride seeing the Rolls Royce logo stamped on engines at airports

As far as I know, RR also makes a lot of engines for private jets ... (and not just them). It would be nice to see a video made by SF about this area of the aviation, too! Thank you for your great work!

In my 29.5 year Airline career over 23,000 hours of it was powered by PW engines. Never a single burp or hiccup!

Interesting that GE and P&W had to form Engine Alliance to compete with the RR Trent.

I've always been a huge fan of the Rolls Royce Engines and especially on the 757s even tho the 757s are out of production but still i love the RR engines on the seven fives the most!!!!! The RR's are nice on the A350s and on the 787s also 👌 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Not at all what I expected. I honestly thought Rolls Royce would be the biggest market share holder. But when the video mentioned that they only make engines for wide body jets, it makes sense that they hold the smallest market share.

My preference is Rolls Royce engines, have full confidence and feel a sense of pride when onboard an aircraft fitted with RR engines

My favorite engine is the RB211-535C, the perfect roar on the B757!

I have no favorites. But some history.. P&W was a world leader in jet power.. the jt3 , jt8 ( which is still in use ) and the venerable jt9 which brought economy of scale to air travelers, then You have the Rb211, the first break through in the concept of 3 spools ( fan sections) which allowed for truly high bypass and high power with OUTSTANDING fuel economy. Then GE with its ability to pool talent and resources to make ever increasing performance and refining of engines to prefom at levels that are unimaginable.. so weather your DC-10's CF-6 is crawling to take off, the 727-200's jt-8 Whistling into the gate or an L-1011's RB-211 smoking like a coal powered steamer during start up.. all of these engines will get done.

Rolls Royce. My favourite sound is the taxiing Vickers Viscount, music to my ears like Classic FM. 😊

I've never flown on a 777 and I hope when the time comes it's powered by a GE-90 I love the sound it's very similar to the ones on the a321 neo

I think by itself CFM should be the biggest by volume of sales, thereby making safran a major player.

Former Boeing Everett.... been up close and personal with the GE 9X used on the Triple 7 (777). It's easy to remember because G = Gigantic, E = Engine, 9 = nine feet diameter of main fan. It's so big it won't fit inside a 1 story building. With engine and cowling the GE 9X stands about 1 1/2 stories tall. The 2 GE 9X's on 777 and 787 have almost as much power as the 4 smaller engines on 747. Pilots say planes equipped with it is like a powerful sports car. It might not allow Triple 7 to go 'vertical', but it can sure get close to it on extreme takeoff.

The worlds most efficient turbine to date is the RR Trent XWB that powers the A350. It`s expected to be overtaken by the GE9X but this engine which powers the B777X still hasn`t entered service because of said planes delays so we won`t know for sure till then. In the meantime Ultra-fan promises worthwhile gains in fuel efficiency in the near future so long as it can be accompanied by expected reliability.

P&W Has an even bigger reach when you consider turboprop engines too. P&W engines can be found on dash 8's worldwide not to mention the extensive reach of the PT6 on many smaller turboprop commercial aircraft.

Purely on sound... the RR RB211 is my favourite 😍

I was used to seeing the Pratt & Whitney eagle on the engine cowlings of Air Zimbabwe's Boeing fleet in the 80's & 90's as a kid. At the time didnt know GE & Rolls-Royce also made engines.

I grew up with Rolls Royce Dart Engines around . Learned a lot from RR through the years . Great company !

Not mentioned here - some engines are better optimized for LONG HAUL flights, while others are optimized for takeoffs and landings (ie. short jumps). GE90 engines for eg. were developed for use in the middle east. Also, some engines are more expensive up front, but will pay back their expenses with savings. Also the MAINTENANCE is key as some areas have nil for engine O/H services.

Looking at the market it looks like GE dominate Boeing aircraft and RR dominate Airbus aircraft. I do think the days of offering multi choice engines on aircraft in the future has gone, the 787 being the last aircraft to have 2 engine choices.

I have begun to ❤️the GE engines for there development in technology.....

I'm from Derby so it's got to be Rolls Royce

As a 787 mechanic that works on both engine choices (GE/RR), we universally prefer the GEnx engines, only from a maintenance point of view.

Rolls Royce is on another level tho. Ngl

Learnt lots. Thank you! Don’t forget some 777s are PW powered a couple of really rare A318s actually had a PW6000 engine. I believe Avianca used them.

CFM are relatively easy to work on. V2500 and PW1100 are an eternal pain in that regard. GEnX and Trent1000 are my personal favorite when it comes to flying. But I also have a big interest in the GE Honda HF120

P&W has been kicked out the widebody market now as Boeing has gone with GE and Airbus RR

My favorite sounding ones are the old CF6-6’s and 50’s Older RB211’s and the legendary JT9D’s. Early GE90’s sound great also

For some reason i love GE engines , they look and sound cool

Love the look of the RR engines, love the sound of the GE90 engines and I love the low oil consumption of the P&W engines.

I would say Pratt & Whitney, as they pioneered the jet airliner industry, with the JT3D, JT8D and JT9D. They can made with those engines some insanely good sounds. Just listen to a JT8D roar!

I don't know much about jet engines or what engine is on what plane. One thing I do know, though, is that, to my eyes, the Boeing 787 is a beautiful looking plane from the outside. I'd love to experience being inside one.

Rolls Royce name alone is very reassuring

Fascinating

You completely overlooked the turboprop market. With that, Pratt & Whitney might be number 1 as their engines power the Dash 8 (100, 200, 300, 400), ATR42, ATR72, PC12, ect.

And GE has engines on the 777-300er and the upcoming 777x

Three of them, are manufacturing very charming jet engines. But personally I love Pratt and Whitney company for its quality and its very powerful research center ( specially on super alloys fields)

That Ultrafan is so cool

❤️❤️❤️ beautiful video ❤️❤️❤️

RR, The best. Wonder how different things would be now if Britain hadn't been forced to give the USA the Jet Engine because of WWII ? we must all remember the Great Man Sir Frank Whittle, who was even dismissed by the RAF and British government for many years with his invention!!! THE JET ENGINE, he then came up with the idea of the modern bypass jet before the rest of them! The man was a genius, the rest is history as they say.

RR are my preference. XWBs are just so cool

The RB211 isy favorite hands down. The ridiculously OP 757 rules

You should do a video on largest MROs for ending overhaul.

It's GE ...by a large margin.....then the rest fighting for the balance.. Rolls missing out on about 85% of the market..no regional or narrow body engine def.hurts their market share.. Pratt needs a new widebody engine to compete.. Doing an excellent job on the regional and narrow body markets though..

Well I love the pw1100g on the neo as well as the 1500g on the a 220 with its amazing whale sound.

My favourite engines are the GE CF6, GE90 - 115B, GE9X, Trent XWB, Trent 900

RR is my preference.

My personal two favourites are the GE90-115B and the RR TRENT XWB-97 🔥

GE is my first choice followed by the RB211 by Rolls-Royce

Rollroyce's engine cowling look nice. They tend to hide the mechanisms from back of the engine.

PW is the future engine for narrow body the efficiency will be the game changer

GE makes 767 engines also and P&W makes 757 engines

Preference? Simple RR.

Rolls Royce needs to re-enter the single aisle market. See if Ultrafan pulls this off.

Rolls-Royce aero engines centre of excellence i saw it for 30 years.

I've worked on R/R. And I know that's a class Engine.

My preference is Rolls Royce. They are the best.

Have more confidence when seeing RR on the side of the cowling.

So CFM holds 39 percent of the market. Safran is a 50% partner in CFM, giving them 19.5% of the market. This is before Safran's own products are added. Safran's 19.5% of the market just from CFM exceeds RR's 18% share of the market, placing Safran as the third biggest engine manufacturer, and relegating RR to 4th.

Doesn't PW also have engines on certain 777-200ers with United and other customers?

RB211-535 on the 757 is the best and the Trent 700 on the A330

It's interesting to see ge/cfm and p&w have all collaborated while rr are still manufacturing there own product

How the hell do all of these joint ventures and cooperations work between direct competitors?

Being a British guy I would have to say RR as they were the first company to manufacture Aero engines that were reliable and where the beating heart of the SPITFIRE and the American P51 and RR where the first to make Jet engines which is also a British invention (Frank Whittle)

I think the 3 of them do a great job.

Rolls Royce every time.

GE without a shred of doubt . . .

From the cost of maintaining a jet engine for narrow body and wide body aircraft, what engine is the cheapest to maintain and is not easily damaged?

I work for GE aerospace. Kind of odd what's going on with air bus though. We aren't making any leap parts for them until they use up their stock. It's only a .002 change but apparently will reduce fuel consumption?

My favourites are GE90, RR Trent 700 and Trent XWB

Rolls Royce is my pic, Outof the UK I think their the best. Though I do like the GE-7000 for the A-380.

Do I have an engine preference? Yes, I always walk under the plane before I fly in it to see what engines are on it….. right before I kick the tires. Next silly question.

My preference is the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593

"Rolls Royce made a name for itself in the automotive market" ... well yes, but Rolls Royce Motor Cars is a totally separate company to Rolls Royce Holdings (including RR Aerospace). To the unitiated - which Simple Flying's excellent videos will appeal (as well as us aviation fanatics) - this distinct difference has just been re-muddied.

The GE9X on the 777x is set to be the biggest and most efficient engine

Important to keep in mind that this is commercial engines only. When you factor in military engines and gas turbines (commercial and military), Rolls Royce drops much further back from P&W and especially GE, while a fourth big player is Ukraine's Zorya-Mashproekt. The two most common large gas turbine engines in use are GE's LM2500 (based on the CF6), ZM's DA80 (a bespoke design, used in basically every Russian, Chinese, Indian, or otherwise Soviet-based warship and also produced "under license" in China as the QC-280), with Rolls Royce's MT30 (based on the Trent 800) being a new player but still very limited in use. Rolls Royce has the market for smaller gas turbine generators cornered though, as they bought Allison. P&W doesn't do gas turbines, but they're the leading manufacturer of military aircraft engines right now. The F-22's F119 and F-35's F135 are both P&W products, and a majority of F-15s and F-16s use the P&W engine over the GE one. GE does have exclusive rights to power the Super Hornet, and some foreign aircraft like Korea's KF-21, but in terms of total engines in use, they're behind P&W. Rolls Royce, meanwhile, has only one military turbofan in service right now - the EJ200 that exclusively powers the Eurofighter Typhoon - but is scheduled to provide the F130s used to re-engine the B-52.

I'm hoping to land a job at Pratt & Whitney so I'm biased based on what I hope for the future.

Rolls Royce actually mastered jet powered VTOL with the flying bedstead for the military that Bristol Siddeley then developed

in today's market as far as passenger comfort is concerned, the more quiet the engine, the more enjoyable the experience when flying. yes, safety is the #1 priority, but it's up to the airline to maintain proper maintenance so that nothing happens in the sky. fuel burns are also a factor. quiet and fuel savings will go a long way in today's modern engine design no matter who the mftr is.

My preference? The beautiful beast, GE90-115B

The a330s Trent 700 sounds great and looks nice.

I feel RR is missing on a huge opportunity to not field their own narrow-body engine where the market is dominated by P&W and CFM International (GE-Safran). Since P&W engines are facing reliability issues with their narrow-body engines resulting in airlines grounding their planes, the market share will tilt towards LEAP engines. Hence, this segment of engines need a new player to tackle the duopoly of P&W and CFM International.

Can you make a similar video on Avionics

I may be wrong but I don't think there is currently any connection between the Rolls-Royce that makes aircraft engines and the car manufacturer.

Through the years I seen almost only RollsRoyce videos on RU-vid. But I guessed right that GE had greater market share. If I understand it right GE as a company has muscles. So their sales organization might be bigger.

My preference is P&W, because I work there!

Realy I like this factory

RR, as they’re still British. But they really need to get into the narrow body market more.

Does anyone know what engines the regional jets from Embraer and Bomardier use? I recall seeing an Allison engine on a regional jet, but my recollection could be wrong.

I’m not going to blindly say GE90 like everyone else and say RB211 is my favorite. (By sound, of course)

What about Safran and CFM?

RR RB211

If I buy an A320-200 aircraft, I will definitely go for cfm56 engine variant

@ Simple Flying Now that you have covered engines, please make a similar video about the APU's.

You didn't mention the pesky problem of the RR 787 engines. (is it fixed now?) It put RR in precarious financial situation due to the costs and damage t its image. BTW, development of the P&W geared turbofan was done jointly with the C-Series project and benefited from govt tax breaks/help at launch (Both Bombardier and P&W are based in Montréal). The C-Series was meant to have exclusivity of this competitive advantage for some period. But combination of delay of C-Series and uncertaintly on future of Bombardier resulted in P&W making the geared turbofan available to Mitsubishi's regional jet as well as Airbus who started the 320 NEO project. P&W also makes the engines for the Twin Otter, Dash-8 and CL415/515 aircraft now part of DeHaviland Canada (but currently not being produced). I beleive some of the ATR72s aslo use P&W engines. It is interesting that aircraft engines are one of the few product lines that GE has not yet sold off. (turbines also part of generating units and GE, while divesting itself of many businesses, did but the energy division of Alstom some years ago to add to its nuclear plant product line).

I like the engine that makes the best noise!

CFM is the best in narrow body both A320 neo & B737 Max.