Fixing the Groundings Is What Made the Engine Bill Permanent

Pratt & Whitney pushed 43 percent more PW1100G engines through its shop network in the second quarter of 2026 than in the same quarter a year earlier. Turnaround time fell 23 percent. The work scopes were 14 percentage points heavier than the year before, which is to say the engines coming out had more replaced inside them.

Each of those figures is a repair-network metric. Each of them is also an invoice.

Across town, GE Aerospace’s version of the same story reads better still. LEAP shop visit turnaround has come down to roughly 100 days, more than two weeks quicker than a year ago, and CEO Larry Culp told investors last month that aircraft grounded for engine availability had fallen to nearly none. Wizz Air Holdings had 27 A320neos parked at the end of June, down from a peak the carrier spent two years describing as existential, and CEO Jozsef Varadi still expects to be clear of geared-turbofan groundings by the end of 2027, per FlightGlobal reporting in August.