UK-based Senior is in advanced talks to sell its loss-making aerostructures business so that it can solely focus on fluid conveyance and thermal management.

Eighteen months on from Pratt & Whitney announcing that hundreds of GTF engines would have to be pulled from service to undergo enhanced inspections, airlines are still suffering.

This year the number of Airbus A330s converted into freighters passed the half-century mark, but that number will look meager compared to a decade from now.