Pratt & Whitney Canada signs 15-year APU support deal with Scoot

Pratt & Whitney Canada signs long-term APU support deal with Scoot

Sustained APU care for Scoot’s Dreamliners

Pratt & Whitney Canada, an RTX unit, signs a 15-year maintenance agreement with Scoot covering a minimum of 24 APS5000 auxiliary power units fitted to the carrier’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The deal is designed to deliver OEM-backed maintenance solutions that keep APS5000 performance at peak levels, provide predictable maintenance costs, improve dispatch reliability and let Scoot focus on passenger experience, the companies say.

The APS5000 is an all‑electric APU described by Pratt & Whitney Canada as the quietest in its class with industry-low emissions, producing 450 kVA of electrical power at sea level and capable of starting and operating up to 43,100 feet. Pratt & Whitney notes more than 1,400 APS5000 units are in the field and the installed fleet has logged nearly 16 million hours, attributes it says support longer intervals between maintenance and reduced operational disruption.

Under the agreement Pratt & Whitney Canada will apply a global MRO footprint, engineering resources and data‑driven maintenance practices to optimise availability, lower total cost of ownership and reduce unplanned removals over the contract term. The move builds on a longstanding relationship with Scoot and sits alongside Pratt & Whitney’s broader aftermarket strategy — the business supports more than 90,000 in‑service engines — and is part of RTX’s portfolio of aerospace and defence services; RTX reports a global workforce exceeding 180,000 and recent annual sales above $88 billion.

Collins Aerospace expands connected‑aircraft services for Thai Airways

Collins Aerospace, another RTX business, is rolling out its GlobalConnect managed services and FOMAX flight operations and maintenance exchanger to support Thai Airways’ growing A321neo fleet. Collins is providing GlobalConnect on each of Thai’s 32 A321neos, with FOMAX already installed on nearly 1,500 aircraft worldwide; the systems enable automatic quick‑access recorder downloads, situational awareness, predictive maintenance and higher‑capacity, lower‑latency data transmission via ACARS over IP.

Raytheon frameworks boost missile production capacity

Raytheon, the RTX defence unit, enters five framework agreements of up to seven years with the U.S. government to expand production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, AMRAAMs, Standard Missile 3 Block IB and IIA interceptors and Standard Missile 6. RTX plans to increase annual Tomahawk output to more than 1,000, AMRAAMs to at least 1,900 and SM‑6 to over 500, with production and capacity work at facilities in Tucson, Huntsville and Andover to strengthen the domestic industrial base and support allied requirements.