RT by @john4brexit: BOOM! Airbus and Rolls-Royce's huge multi-billion pound order from Turkish Airlines - the numbers:

▪️ The historic deal, worth tens of billions of pounds, comprises 150 A321s and 70 A350 widebody aircraft (50 A350-900s, 15 A350-1000s and five A350F freighters)

▪️ The seventy A350 aircraft will be exclusively powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, which are assembled and tested in Derby. This will make Turkish Airlines the world’s largest operator of Trent XWB engines.

▪️ All the wings will be assembled in Broughton, supporting hundreds of manufacturing jobs. In September, Airbus announced plans to create more than 1,100 jobs in Britain, increasing the world's biggest producer of commercial airliners' 11,500-strong UK workforce by almost 10%.

This is undoubtedly a huge win for the UK’s world-class aerospace sector which contributes almost £11 billion to the economy each year and employs more than 108,000 people. #UKmfg

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Jefferson_MFG/status/1735956921260077248#m

[2023-12-16 09:35 UTC]