Boeing, Airbus approaching narrowbody re-engine decision

Boeing expects to make a decision on 737 re-engining "toward the end of this year," Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Jim Albaugh said yesterday at the JP Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense Conference in New York, available via webcast. He said the company is talking to "all three engine manufacturers" and that it recognizes it is "looking at more competitors in the future" in the single-aisle market. "We have to deliver an airplane that has more value than the competition," he said
(ATWOnline, March 3). In Paris at EADS' full-year results announcement, CEO Louis Gallois said re-engining the A320 family is "a possibility" and "depends on so many things," including what competitors decide to do. He said a decision could come over the summer.