Livingston and Rolls-Royce celebrate 100,000 flight hours of Trent 700 engines on the airline company's Airbus A330-200s

Cardano al Campo, September 17, 2007



Livingston and Rolls-Royce celebrate 100,000 flight hours of Trent 700 engines on the airline company's Airbus A330-200s

Livingston, the private airline company owned by the Ventaglio Group, the leading Italian provider of leisure flights world-wide, announces that a major goal has been attained with regard to flights carried out by Airbus A330-200 long-haul aircraft. Following the introduction into the fleet three and a half years ago of these advanced twin-engined long-haul aircraft, the Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines with which all Livingston's Airbus A330-200s are equipped have run up 100,000 flight hours.

When the first Airbus A330-200 entered service in December 2003, Livingston was the first customer to launch this engine type in Italy. Now that the target of 100,000 flight hours has been achieved, the airline company reports 0 per thousand Inflight Shut Downs (IFSD). In other words, an engine in flight has never had to be shut down, a key data for airlines operating under an ETOPS (Extended Twin Engine Operations) flight certificate, whose limit for the ETOPS 180 category (180 minutes maximum diversion time) is 0.022 per thousand. The extremely positive nature of this result has also contributed to Livingston's excellent positioning in terms of Technical Reliability from the launch of flight operations to the present day, with an average of 99.5% compared to a world average of 99.0% for this category of aircraft. Daily flight hours by Livingston SpA's Airbus A330-200s amount to an average of 15 compared to a world average of 12 hours per day for the same type of aircraft.

Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines belong to the family of high-thrust engines designed and manufactured by the British company. Indeed, thanks to the Trent family of engines, in recent years Rolls-Royce has become the leading supplier of engines for latest-generation widebody aircraft. The Trent 700 engine, with a maximum thrust of 72.00 lbs on take-off, entered service for the first time in 1995 and has since been chosen by 43 customers world-wide. Extremely reliable and cost-effective in terms of fuel consumption (maximum thrust on take-off available even at very high ambient temperatures), Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines are certified for ETOPS flights with a diversion time of up to 180 minutes, thus ensuring that airline carriers can operate on the most direct transoceanic routes, while also guaranteeing maximum reliability.

"We are extremely proud to have been the very first Italian airline carrier to use Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines on board our A330-200s," says Giancarlo Celani, CEO and Chairman of Livingston. "It has proved a very positive choice in terms of fuel savings and reliability during take-off, flight and landing, guaranteeing the safety we have always considered an absolute priority."

"We chose to avail ourselves of Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines because they are the most advanced technologically. Moreover, we can rely on thrust ratings greater than those of alternative engines, thus allowing us to cover all the destinations included in our long-haul network," says Andrea Scialpi, VP Technical Operations and CAMO PostHolder at Livingston. "Moreover, the TotalCare© technical monitoring and support package offered by Rolls-Royce has provided us from the very beginning with guaranteed safety and reliability, essential if we are to be fully operational and efficient."

"We are proud to know that Livingston is a satisfied customer," says Ian Fuller, Commercial Director for Europe for Rolls-Royce civil engines. "We invest in advanced technologies for best performance and minimum environmental impact. Our mission is to provide technical support for our customers world-wide, so they can attain the results achieved by Livingston."

The TotalCare© contracts provided by Rolls-Royce ensure constant engine efficiency against payment of a fee per flight hour.


Trent 700 engine: technical data
The Trent 700 is the market leader with almost 50% of the engines installed and ordered for the Airbus A330. Of the three possible variants for the Airbus A330, the Trent 700 boasts the best performance on take-off and ascent and the lowest chemical and noise emissions. The diameter of the engine's fan measures 247 cm.


Livingston is the private airline company founded in March 2003 and owned by the Ventaglio Group for long, medium and short-haul charter and scheduled flights. Since September 2005 Livingston SpA has taken over the long-haul fleet and routes of Lauda Air Italia (the airline company founded in 1990 by ex-Formula One driver, Niki Lauda).
At present the Livingston fleet is made up of 3 Airbus A330-200s (297 seats in both business and economy class) and 3 Airbus A321-200s (210 seats in economy class). All the aircraft are based at Milan Malpensa Airport.

Rolls-Royce in the world
Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems, operates in four global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy. The Group invests in core technologies, products, people and capabilities with the objective of broadening and strengthening the product portfolio, improving efficiency and enhancing the environmental performance of its products. More than 54,000 Rolls-Royce turbines are in service world-wide: on land, at sea and in the air. Over 600 airlines, 4,000 executive jet and helicopter operators, 160 armed forces, 70 navies and more than 2,000 marine customers in 120 countries use Rolls-Royce products and services. The Group employs 38,000 people in 50 countries. In 2006 annual sales totalled €10.6 billion, of which 53% are revenues from the provision of services designed to guarantee maximum product efficiency and reliability.

Rolls-Royce in Italy
Rolls-Royce has offices in Rome, Bologna and Genoa. In the province of Avellino it is represented by EMA - Europea Microfusioni Aerospaziali - a Rolls-Royce (51%) and Finmeccanica (49%) joint venture.
Italian activities are coordinated by Rolls-Royce International headquarters in Rome.
The marine division's headquarters are in Genoa, while the Bologna offices provide solutions for decentralised electricity generation, with systems installed in 32 plants and over 100 engines ordered throughout Italy. Since 2004 Rolls-Royce has collaborated with the University of Genoa, financing fuel cell research, an eco-friendly source of energy expected to become increasingly important in the future, at the University Centre for Technology Research (UTC).