Jazeera Airways places $80m engine order

Jazeera Airways has placed an order for CFM56-5B engines, worth $80 million, according to a statement.

The engines will power four brand new Airbus A320 aircraft scheduled to be delivered to the airline between 2012 and 2014.

"We have had great success with the CFM56-5B engines and formed an outstanding working relationship with CFM,” said Marwan Boodai, Chairman of Jazeera Airways Group in the statement. "The performance and reliability advantages that the engine provides have helped us establish and maintain our high efficiency and reliability reputation."

All of Jazeera Airways’ new engines will be the CFM56-5B Performance Improvement Package (PIP) configuration.

CFM56-5B engines are a product of CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between Snecma (Safran group) and GE. The CFM56-5B engine powers every model of the Airbus A320 family and has been chosen to power nearly 60 per cent of all A320 aircraft in service or on order, the statement added.