Talk:Rolls-Royce Trent XWB

Failed contract is old news
I modified the following paragraph to make it more clear at the outset that this never came to pass.

A large contract with Emirates to power 70 aircraft with Trent XWBs was announced on 11 November 2007, but never filled. The announced contract concerned 50 A350-900 and 20 A350-1000 aircraft, with a further 50 option rights. Due to be delivered from 2014, the Emirates order was potentially worth up to $8.4 billion at list prices, including options. However, on 11 June 2014, Airbus announced that Emirates Airline had decided to cancel its order of 70 A350 XWB aircraft.

Having modified the paragraph, I'm left wondering if the article needs to cover this historical non-starter in the first place. From the perspective of 2019, this looks like old news. &mdash; MaxEnt 12:01, 8 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I would agree an order cancelled should not be very interesting, but in this case, it is: Emirates, being the largest long-haul operator, is influencial in this market, and its back-and-forth positions on airliners and their engines often steer their development: after this cancellation, emirates went to Boeing 787-10s instead, then cancelled its remaining A380 orders in part due tue its trent 900s not delivering anticipated improvements, to be replaced by trent-powered A350s and A330neos, itself threatening the 787-10 order!.--Marc Lacoste (talk) 13:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)