EASA has issued a revised type certificate for Pratt & Whitney’s PW1100G family, adding 19 GTF Advantage models — including the PW1124G/2-JM for the A319neo — eight months after FAA certification. The decision removes a major European regulatory hurdle for the upgraded GTF variant.
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EASA added 19 PW1100G GTF Advantage models and validated the upgrade across A320-family variants, eight months after FAA approval — a direct regulatory step that enables certified operation and retrofits in Europe.
The approval aligns with Pratt & Whitney’s broader certification push and planned upgrade pathway for A320neo performance, supporting fleet deployment and delivery schedules (roadmap to restore and boost A320neo performance).
The decision arrives while carriers and MROs contend with GTF reliability and servicing bottlenecks that have grounded aircraft and constrained capacity, underscoring why certified fixes and production resilience matter to operators and supply chains (bottlenecks leave nearly 25% of some carriers' A320neo-family jets grounded) (Industrial 4.0 manufacturing and digital techniques).
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