American switches to Rolls engines for new widebodies

American Airlines, which has General Electric CF6 engines on over 100 widebody aircraft now in its fleet, has switched to Roll-Royce powerplants for four Boeing 777-200s and four 767-300ERs, orders for which were announced yesterday. Robert Crandall, American chairman, said the carrier has been...

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