CLAIM #26484 · GE (GE) · 2025Q3 earnings call · Oct 21, 2025 · due Dec 31, 2026
“As I said in response to Seth's question, the number of engines that need a shop visit is projected to be up double digits in '26, just based on the number of cycles that they've already flown.”
Rahul Ghai · CFO
How to check this claim
Look at: Number of engine shop visits, year-over-year growth rate for fiscal 2026
It came true if: Shop visit count growth >= 10% versus fiscal 2025
Where: Company-disclosed shop visit volumes or commentary (10-K / earnings call disclosures for fiscal 2026)
In context
“harpen the pencil on 2026. Rahul Ghai: Okay. Let me start, and Larry, please jump in here. As we think about '26, Scott, firstly -- and especially on the commercial side, the environment today feels better than where we were 3 months ago, right? I mean 3 months ago; we were expecting second half departures growth to be kind of flat to maybe low single digits. Now it's solidly in the 3% to 4% range. So I think the air traffic growth has stabilized. So '26 feels a little bit better than where we were a couple of months back. But the more important part here, and this goes partially back to Seth's question a minute ago, is the basic algorithm of the demand and performance on the CES business has not changed. Installed base is growing, right, both on the wide-body and on the narrow-body side. As I said in response to Seth's question, the number of engines that need a shop visit is projected to be up double digits in '26, just based on the number of cycles that they've already flown. And that will add to the demand that's out there. And then the work scopes on wide-body, low single-digit kind of net price increase that we are expecting, which seems reasonable. So we do expect the services business to continue to our overall growth. And then as we get into -- as you think about specifically on the '26 growth, we don't expect a repeat of the '25 performance. We don't expect '25 growth to be -- '26 growth to be kind of at the '25 levels, but it will start normalizing towards our double-digit levels that we had projected over the medium term. And then on the new business -- new equipment business, obviously, the backlog is very strong. And we expect, call it, 2,000 LEAP engine shipments and then incremental 9X shipments here because our volume assumptions on 9X have not c”
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