https://aviationweek.com/shownews/fa...ix-boeing-787s
Sean Doyle’s comments on the engine switch.
Commenting on the order, BA CEO and Chairman Sean Doyle told Aviation Week, "We ran a competition this time around and we factored in cost and quality, your total cost of maintenance, and that's been the driver of our decision."
"About 45%-50% of our engines are the GE, 50% are with Rolls—I think we need competition," Doyle said during a July 23 briefing here at
Farnborough Airshow. "I think in the future we’d run the same processes—competition is very important to us."
"We've closed out the selection for these six planes, but there's a lot more in play in future," Doyle said.
More GE 787s are definitely coming …at least that’s my interpretation.
Bloomberg had said part of the reason BA went with the 787 was because it allowed them to run a competition on the engines. The fact they want to do that again in the future suggests to me that they’re leaning very heavily into the 787-10 as their next large order