Rolls-Royce to provide Totalcare Flex services for Air Canada’s Trent 700 fleet

Rolls-Royce has signed a new TotalCare® Flex agreement with Air Canada that will ensure the availability of the airline’s Trent 700 until fleet retirement August 22.

The agreement marks a new milestone for TotalCare Flex, designed for owners and operators of mature engines. It is the first to be signed for the Trent 700, which entered service in 1995, and is in addition to TotalCare Flex agreements on Trent 800 and Trent 500 engines.

To date, the Air Canada fleet of Trent 700-powered Airbus A330s has achieved more than 700,000 flying hours. With the first aircraft now reaching approximately 20 years in service, the reliability and durability of the Trent 700 is unparalleled.

TotalCare Flex builds on the success of Rolls-Royce TotalCare, where the needs of the aircraft operator and engine manufacturer are fully aligned with the shared goal of maximising engine time on wing.

As engines reach maturity, operators require predictability and reliability to keep passengers flying, as well as preserving the value of the engine as it nears retirement from the fleet.

TotalCare Flex provides all the risk transfer characteristics of TotalCare, but recognises that customers want to minimise costs, while releasing all the engine life before the aircraft is retired from service.