In a message dated 9/30/2003 6:53:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << And the follow-on question is, why did UA choose IAE's for its Airbuses, when the vast majority of Airbuses use CFM56s, and UA already had a zillion CFM56s on its second-generation 737s? It can't be a "Buy American" issue since both CFM and IAE are U.S. + non-U.S. consortiums... >> While a lot of Airbuses use the CFMs, the IAEs are becoming more and more common. jetBlue, one of their fastest growing customers, use IAE, as does UA. I believe BA (RR owning part of IAE probably has to do with it) also uses IAE engines. That is three major A320 family customers that use V2500s