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Limited Facilities Worldwide Certified to Service Boeing 777X GE9X Engines at Launch

An engine like the CFM56 is easy to work on, in part because it's a known motor that has been in service for decades and has global support. It's easy to arrange maintenance for the engine, while parts are cheap to source and can be delivered quickly. But with any new engine, it takes time to scale up a maintenance network, particularly today, as new models are becoming increasingly complex, and this is the exact challenge that early Boeing 777X operators will face with the aircraft's General Electric GE9X engines.