IndiGo drops Pratt for CFM's jet engines in $20 billion order
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's biggest airline IndiGo said on Monday it has placed a $20 billion (16 billion pounds) jet engine order from CFM International, a move that marks a dramatic shift away from Pratt & Whitney towards its French-American rival.CFM, owned by General Electric and France's Safran, will provide the 1LEAP-1A engines to power 280 A320neo and A321neo jetliners already on order from Airbus by the Delhi-based budget carrier.IndiGo has an order book of 430 Airbus planes of the..