GTF for LATAM's additional A320neo

Pratt & Whitney has announced that LATAM has selected GTF engines to power additional A320neo family aircraft, adding to their initial order selecting GTF turbojet engines to power more than 40 aircraft in 2013. Adding the remaining options, the agreement will cover a total of 146 aircraft. Pratt & Whitney will also maintain the airline's engines under a long-term EngineWise comprehensive service contract. 

V2500 and GTF 

Based in Santiago, Chile, LATAM is Latin America's leading airline group, with a presence in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as well as international operations in Latin America and Europe, Oceania, the USA and the Caribbean. LATAM was the first airline in the Americas to operate the Airbus A320neo. LATAM currently operates more than 80 V2500-powered Airbus A320ceo and 16 GTF-powered Airbus A320neo aircraft.

A relationship that goes back to the Twin Wasp

The relationship between the engine-maker and the airline, or rather LAN Airlines, is not exactly a recent one, dating back more than seven decades to the R-1830 Twin Wasp double-star engine, which powered the airline's Douglas DC-3s.