Pratt holds GTF inspection service bulletin to August 7

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Pratt & Whitney now plans to issue detailed guidance to airlines on required engine inspections for Airbus A320neo family operators on August 7, a company spokeswoman tells The Air Current. TAC interviewed RTX Corp. Chief Executive Greg Hayes on July 25 when the engine maker was intending to release its service bulletin to operators on July 31. A Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive is expected to follow.

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The spokeswoman said the initial target for the service bulletin was “approximate” and the company has “been working with airline customers since July 25 to confirm the plan and schedule” engine recalls. The first tranche of 200 engines in an affected population manufactured between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the third quarter of 2021 have to be returned for the urgent inspections by September 15 — 43 days from now. 

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Jon Ostrower
Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current, where he leads coverage of the global aerospace and aviation industries. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Mr. Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network’s global coverage of the business and operations of aviation. Mr. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and a half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C., he covered Boeing, aviation safety, and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Mr. Ostrower was editor of FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. He is also an instructor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering's Aviation Safety and Security program. Mr. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.
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