Reading Time: 2 minutes Embraer announced that it has signed an agreement for up to five E190s with Colorful Guizhou Airlines, including two firm orders and three purchase rights. The firm order will be included in Embraer’s 2016 third-quarter backlog. The contract has an estimated value of USD 249 million at the current list price, if all purchase rights […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Belgium and Netherlands’ based ASL and JetNetherlands welcome an Embraer Phenom 100 to their growing fleet. The aircraft is the first to be managed by the company under the new EASA Part-NCC requirements and opens the path to a new specific market. Based in Lelystad, Netherlands, the Phenom 100 will not be offered for charter […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The third of four Embraer E190-E2 flight test aircraft has flown for the first time, the Brazilian manufacturer confirmed. The flight test program for the next-generation E-Jet powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1900G geared turbofan (GTF) engines was launched ahead of schedule May 23. The second E2 prototype took to the skies July 8. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Embraer has announced a Voluntary Dismissal Program (VDP) for employees in Brazil. The company believes that the VDP gives the decision opportunity to the employees and offers an attractive benefits package. Due to the challenging global aerospace scenario, Embraer has lowered its annual aircraft delivery forecast, as communicated during its second quarter earnings release on […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica (Embraer) delivered 47 commercial aircraft and 49 corporate aircraft in the first half of 2016, the company indicated in a statement disclosing its second quarter and first half-year results. In the second quarter, the company delivered 26 commercial aircraft and a like number of corporate aircraft (23 light aircraft and three […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The first prototype of the KC-390, next generation multi-mission aircraft by Embraer, returned to Brazil after successfully completing its first international mission, lasting 23 days and flying more than 48 hours. Currently, two KC-390 prototypes accumulated more than 400 flight hours. Besides participating in the Farnborough Airshow in England, where the aircraft made its international […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Boeing and Embraer S.A. unveiled the next phase of the Boeing ecoDemonstrator program today. The program expands Boeing and Embraer’s cooperation agreement and will test technologies to improve airplane environmental performance and accelerate their introduction into the marketplace. An Embraer E170 will serve as the flying testbed and will feature advanced environmental technologies that will […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) has announced several changes and cut-backs to its summer schedule after a lack of suitably qualified flight crew, needed to operate its incoming fleet of seventeen EMB-195s, forced a recent series of flight cancellations. “Austrian Airlines has hired a total of 110 pilots over the last twelve months. As a result, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lightweight metals leader Alcoa announced a long-term contract with Embraer – the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 130 seats – valued at approximately $470 million. Under the multiyear agreement, Alcoa will supply aluminum sheet and plate for Embraer’s new E2s, the second generation of its E-Jets family of commercial aircraft, a narrow-body mediumrange […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the first Phenom 100E to Etihad Flight College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft arrived yesterday in the city of Al Ain, base of the flight school established to train ab-initio pilots for the airline’s rapidly expanding fleet. “Designed for […]