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Boeing has delivered the first 737 fitted with the new standard CFM56-7BE engines with the handover of a 737-800 to China Southern Airlines last week.
The CFM56-7BE engine configuration features modified high and low pressure turbines to improve fuel consumption and reduce maintenance costs, and is a key element of Boeing’s 737 performance improvement package, which along with some aerodynamic tweaks is intended to reduce the 737’s fuel consumption by two per cent.
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“Other fuel performance incorporations will take place into 2012 and data analysis will continue to quantify the final benefit to customers,” Boeing said in a statement.
Boeing says these latest improvements will mean the 737NG will be seven per cent more efficient compared to the when the aircraft was first delivered in 1998.
