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

A few names dominate the aircraft engine world. The companies leading the market are General Electric, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney. When glancing out from your window seat, you are looking probably at one of their engines. In today’s video, let's take a look at the various engines and the aircraft they power!
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[@turbofanlover]

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

[@ericjones7769]

Yass!!!!!! The Rolls Royce Engines i love as well

[@MostlyPennyCat]

And the roller coaster that the RB211 caused

[@damianweathers2173]

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

[@John-nc4bl]

Its all in your warped sense of imagination.

[@explorenaked]

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

[@highpointsights]

RR is just behind the curve!!

[@arielleblond6201]

JA Form 1. Don't worry it's impossible to make any mistake with certified planes or the FAA stops you immediately.

[@jonathanma2741]

I thought now a days engines are kinna leased by airlines, and engine manufacturers store spare parts and do repairs for the airlines

[@timmyjones1921]

Agreed,

[@highpointsights]

The RR fanblades are heavier so when one fails you have a massively unbalanced condition that will tear up lots of things. I don't know if RR has newer better martial in their fan blades or not!!

[@paulyoung7551]

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.

[@anthonyxuereb792]

Don't forget they went bust some time ago and had to rationalise their product range. I think they purchased Allison turbine for the lower end of the aviation market and some other overseas companies to broaden their spectrum especially into the maritime sphere.

[@James-st9uu]

Not to forget the US government anti compete policy with foreign companies.

[@ahappyeskimo]

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

[@chandrachurniyogi8394]

GE without a shred of doubt . . .

[@lp3ligr0l]

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

[@xsentinel3044]

Let me help you out. 777-300ER - GE90-115B only 777-300 (Non ER) - GE90, RR Trent 800 and PW 777-200LR - GE only (GE90-115B or 110B) 777-200 and 200 ER - GE90- (Commonly the 90B and 94B but 85B on some BA aircraft), RR Trent 800 (892 or 895), PW4000. On British Airways 777-200s they have both RR and GE engines G-VXXX are GE engines G-YXXX are RR Engines G-XXXX are GE engines too United 777-200s are mixed GE and PW but idk the registrations for them. If you want GE90s I recommend just looking for a 300ER flight but the GEs on the 777-200 series sound incredible with a grunt/roar sound to them

[@stevenholt1867]

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

[@SJR_Media_Group]

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.

[@anishanikki4164]

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

[@globetrotter7778]

…and for the GE90-115B’s legendary howl during spool ups.

[@sree137918]

​@globetrotter7778 don't forget the ge9x!

[@charlesyoungblood1402]

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

[@jimrolph1594]

Hi Charles I retired from Hants & Sussex Aviation 18 months ago We overhauled RR Darts for decades Also saw one in the lobby of the Smithsonian air & space museum in Washington DC

[@schurb]

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.

[@MJM26]

Can I ask what about the Trent 1000 you find worse for maintenance? I'm only interested as I have never worked on a GEnx.

[@schurb]

@@MJM26 I'll keep it short. Fluid leaks.

[@MJM26]

@@schurb oh ok. I only ask as I've worked at RR for a short period now and trying to learn from others. Are the leaks from general pipework around the core? Or around the gearbox, filters etc on the case?

[@AB-80X]

@@schurb That's one thing. What I also hear from the gas turbine techs I know, is that RR engines are often needlessly complicated in their design.

[@leegreatorex04]

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

[@PedroConejo1939]

Yep. Grew up in sight of A and D sites.

[@taridean]

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.

[@HayilAl-Qadhaafi-ws9of]

Rolls Royce is on another level tho. Ngl

[@maxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmax1]

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.

[@umi3017]

And meanwhile piston engine market is totally different landscape with Lycoming, Continental and Rotax etc...

[@AB-80X]

There's also the fighter jet market, which P&W also dominates.

[@tconua777]

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

[@ideasforu358]

RR are my preference. XWBs are just so cool

[@MostlyPennyCat]

That Ultrafan is so cool

[@DwaynePearson05]

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.

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

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

[@thomasburke7995]

They were not kicked out.. they left of thier own accord.. more money to be made elsewhere..

[@aeroman5239]

General Electric and Pratt & Whitney insisted on a winner-take-all contract due to the $500 million investment in engine modifications needed to meet the requirements. GE bought their way onto the 777-300ER by subsidizing the development of the engine pylon - PW was not willing to do that.

[@ERIK31351]

The widebody market has been kicked out of the profitability market.

[@heidirabenau511]

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

[@Sanyu-Tumusiime]

RR is my preference.

[@TheUnreadableUser]

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!

[@Chris_at_Home]

I worked at P&WA for a few years in the late 1970s. I worked assembling JT8s and JT9s and used to get to go up to the test cells and hook engines up for test and watch the test. It was a great job, but I had an electronics background I wanted to use.i left and got a job where I flew on some of the 737s that I probably worked on the engines when flying to Prudhoe Bay from Anchorage to get to and from work a few times a month. We used to see the customers on the assembly paper work.

[@1972GT160]

Can't forget the PW J58 SR71 powerplant

[@godfreydsouza3741]

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

[@richardwilcock2942]

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

[@topethermohenes7658]

Ultrafan is gonna be the largest turbofan in modern times, I think it'd be very difficult to scale it down to narrow bodies

[@richardwilcock2942]

@@topethermohenes7658 At the talk given by Rolls Royce scalability was mentioned. They are going for the biggest first as proof of concept. Rolls-Royce East says the UltraFan programme - which involves a new engine core and geared fan architecture - is scalable to provide 25,000-100,000lb-plus (111kN-446kN) of thrust, making it suitable to power single-aisle and long-haul aircraft. Source Flight lobal March 2019.

[@CerberusTenshi]

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

[@briantitchener4829]

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

[@oliverg98]

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

[@AB-80X]

Why is that the best? The famed powerhouse 757 is the PW2000 variant.

[@ronaldcuieii8639]

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

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

Preference? Simple RR.

[@tommac5411]

Briggs and Stratton is my favorite engine.

[@nayaman1023]

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

[@pontusbramberg762]

My preference is the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593

[@etorepugatti9196]

especially when you have four of them on an airplane.

[@MatteoMariano]

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.

[@aeroman5239]

PW4084s/4090s on 777-200A & ER, and 777-300 (not ER). The PW4098 was a bust - ask Korean Air.

[@donnabushka5520]

Lab Chile was the original operator on A318/ PW6000

[@donnabushka5520]

*typo* Lan Chile

[@BigPops757]

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

[@amirtak9886]

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

[@SDU1969]

Rolls Royce every time.

[@marcusyoung1940]

Pratt & Whitney is my preference

[@StewartWalker-hy1eo]

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

[@imanbabaeinzh9254]

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)

[@markwaite5265]

"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.

[@archiewoosung5062]

Separate now, but the name's a giveaway that it was always the case.

[@mas3ymd]

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.

[@Michaelorwa]

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

[@wasmiddelsap3379]

Nope the Rolls royce Ultrafan is slightly bigger and rumors are they will be used for upcoming airbus aircrafts

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

@@wasmiddelsap3379 But the key thing is it’s not yet in service

[@mmm0404]

@@wasmiddelsap3379 the GE9X is the largest and most efficient certified engine to date . And the Ultrafan will be used for Airbus , Boeing jets and other suitable applications 👍

[@wasmiddelsap3379]

@@mmm0404 yea to date thats true. But i think the maybe upcoming a350 neo will use it first.

[@worldwidepig]

Yeah, GE9X is 134 inch diameter fan, the current ultrafan demonstrator has a 140 inch diameter fan. I work at RR and have seen the pictures of the build, the size is just incredible! Although I'm on the same campus as the engine itself, I have yet to actually go see it in person. The good thing about the ultrafan is its ability to scale to fit different airframes as and when there are some confirmed, though my own opinion is that Airbus and Boeing want to see it in action before wanting it on their airframes. Will be interesting to see RR entering the narrowbody market with some scaled down ultrafans, as the engines they produce currently are either for smaller jets or wide body aircraft.

[@nurrizadjatmiko21]

Fascinating

[@philrickerby9895]

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

[@rousalisthanasis9084]

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

[@chrismarsh7138]

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

[@daviddelaet8116]

I think the 3 of them do a great job.

[@ekonomipanou9791]

GE is my favorite.

[@turbin75]

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

[@fincaman2]

I feel safer when I see RR on an engine

[@abdulmoizhashmi]

My preference? The beautiful beast, GE90-115B

[@michaelreeves8164]

Rolls Royce engines are premium.

[@a318snose4]

CFM on A320CEO is absolute beast

[@lightningmcqueen9040]

For A320CEO nothing can beat the IAE V2500

[@barracuda7018]

All of them...

[@GintaPPE1000]

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.

[@ERIK31351]

That is incorrect. Pratt and Whitney Canada is the global leader in small gas turbines. Turboprops and turbofans for private, regional and general aviation.

[@trevorhart545]

That is because of the DoD favouring GE/PW NOT because of product capability. It is called Anti Trust Law that broke up the US Oil Giants which are now merging back together. Standard Oil. Bell telephones also broken up BUT Jet Engines NO! since Military. BOEING NO because of military.

[@kenoliver8913]

@@ERIK31351 No, it's correct. You are right that PWC has a big share of small AVIATION turbines (including turboprops and turboshafts as turbines - the PT-76 family still dominates there, as it has for decades), but gas turbines are also heavily used for power generation, armoured vehicles, and industrial hot gas production. And RR is, since its Allison purchase, the biggest name there.

[@oleandersen2228]

RR! They have by now, made aero engines for a century, not the least the famous Merlin, and they are making the new engines for the B-52.

[@autarchprinceps]

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

[@equalitypeace1695]

Engine that is the most reliable is the safest

[@hassmahmoud]

Trent 900 all the way, for me.

[@roctechproductions]

What about Safran and CFM?

[@RoyalStaggg]

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.

[@hurri7720]

Perhaps it's hard to admit but it's CFM that is the biggest jet engine manufacturer today.

[@composer318]

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

[@deltafox757]

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

[@kevingoodall9307]

GE engines are the BEST!

[@airashkiran4376]

❤️❤️❤️ beautiful video ❤️❤️❤️

[@garykee1]

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.

[@johnmarabe-oake7325]

RR every time ❤

[@joydasgupta9445]

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

[@MrAmeychoudhari]

Rolls Royce

[@MajSolo]

Through the years I seen almost only RollsRoyce videos on KZbin. 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.

[@andrewyoung3299]

My favourite is the ones by GE (CFM for the 737, GE90 for the old 777's, GENX for the 787's, and the GE9X for the new 777X's)

[@Anolaana]

Yeah, the GE90 and GEnx definitely are the best choices for boeing widebodies. I did some reading back into the GE90 and was surprised to hear it originally had gearbox problems when in service with BA back around 1997, but now things have changed again, and for Dreamliner engines the GEnx now has a way better reputation than the Trent 1000.

[@ArgetalianAviator]

The 777 also has P&Ws

[@UE9383]

Rolls-Royce XWB engine is the most efficient engine in service for wide body as of 2022.

[@alexandergrigorov2594]

Airlines used to have real engine option while ordering airplanes from A or B. This was the case in particular for WB aircrafts. Most of the time engine option was down to two OEM but in few cases all three OEM were available. For example A330-300, B747, B767 and even B777 in the begging had a full engine option. A300-600 and A310 were powered by either GE or P&W. However that’s not the case anymore. With couple of exemptions aka B787 and A380 all other WB planes have no engine option anymore. A330NEO and A350 are RR only and B777 is GE only for decades. Why this happened? Well despite what they say politics on both side of the pond get involved too much.

[@Hazemann]

Airbus + RR from Europe VS Boeing + GE from America. FIGHT !!!

[@efryezone]

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?

[@Sterlingjob]

What change?

[@kierenbeales9630]

XWB is my preference

[@mgibilterra]

i personally prefer the Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne RS-25

[@Kumar-y3l3l]

Rolls Royce ❤❤❤

[@flightfernando]

Pratt was almost 20 years out of the game, the PW 6000 was a fiasco in the A318, sales team lost to Rolls Royce with the dynamism of sales in the Trent of the A330. PW4000 of the A330 are even much better in many aspects than the CF6-80 but GE is extremely aggressive in sales. After JT8 it seems to me that we have not settled the points anymore.

[@agar1974]

Absolutely, it’s GE…

[@cattnipp]

Pratt!

[@imawesumsauce]

I started golf 6 months ago, fancy a match play?

[@broddsaviation5471]

This is only about the turbofans, P&W has the largest share of turboprops what I know of

[@isaacclarke4229]

In India I have seen most of the airliners with engines of GE logo😅

[@SilkRoadFamily]

Rolls Royce Engines are quiet and reliable in my opinion!

[@MandoMonge]

GE90 startup noises 🤤

[@jouniairplanevideos]

2:22 i missed the E-Jets.

[@WhiskeyGulf71]

Im surprised RR are third ! I assumed GE was no1 though. P&W are not highly used in the Neo A320 family & only have engines on old out of date, soon to retire wide bodies. RR have exclusive supply to the A350 family which was proving to be popular before the painted started falling off the planes.

[@paulroling1781]

By value RR will be higher, as the WB engines are larger and more expensive.

[@hafizuddinmohdlowhim8426]

The answer is Pratt and Whitney.

[@tancredeadnot5276]

No preference at all but will definitely be more interested and detail looking on the engines next times I'll fly 😃 I mostly took 777-300 in the last months.

[@dennisallen8333]

If I was able to buy an Airbus ACJ 350 XWB I need Rolls Royce Trent engines flying me.

[@Arun43647]

It is only fair to mention CFM separately.

[@Gio-ue8ps]

GE

[@zuurbekje3125]

'P&W' sounds uncannily like BMW...

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

Completely missing from the conversation is the role of international politics and location of manufacturing.

[@SharhbiniRauf]

They must creating over 2000hp electric ducted fan, 6 fan / long bldc