Rolls-Royce issues a Trent 1000 update; DAE sells aircraft portfolio

Rolls-Royce has trebled its maintenance capacity to fix the issues with the Trent 1000 Package C engines used on a quarter of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft fleet. In an operational update released today, Rolls-Royce confirmed a range of new activities the manufacturer was taking to deal with the demand for increased inspections of the engines and also to introduce a permanent fix for the intermediate pressure compressor rotor issue by the end of 2018. The Package C engine issues first arose in 2016 when an Air New Zealand 787 suffered an in-flight turbine damage over successive days, which let eventually