Boeing, Pratt & Whitney eye narrow body replacements

Published 5:46 pm Thursday, December 6, 2007

It seems both the Boeing Co. and engine-maker Pratt &Whitney have single-aisle replacements on the brain.

Boeing’s Scott Carson told France’s Le Monde that the aerospace company could begin work on its newest version of a narrow body jet in 2010. Boeing has won more than 6,000 orders for its 737, which first entered service in 1968.

At the Reuters Aerospace and Defense summit, an official with the parent company of Pratt &Whitney noted it could have the next generation of single-aisle jet engines ready by 2012. However, the company is targeting 2015, the same year Carson said Boeing’s new single-aisle could enter service.