American aerospace company, the senior branch of the General Electric family. It inherited GE's chief executive and stockmarket ticker symbol when GE broke into three separate companies. The real money—two-thirds of the firm's revenue—is made fixing engines rather than building them: GE Aerospace exerts considerable pricing power when selling spare parts, given the costs airlines incur when their planes are grounded. Together with GE Vernova, the pair's combined annual net income of $14bn in 2025 was more than twice the cumulative profit managed by GE in the decade before its break-up.
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