Embraer E-Jet family

Il dinamismo brasiliano si riflette anche nella capacità di competere nei settori manifatturieri più complessi.

Fondata nel polo tecnologico di São José dos Campos, la società Embraer è cresciuta fino a diventare il terzo costruttore aeronautico del pianeta dopo Boeing e Airbus, dominando il segmento dei jet passeggeri regionali con la serie E-Jets e imponendosi nella difesa con il cargo tattico C-390 Millennium.

Questa vocazione verso il futuro trova la propria espressione estetica più pura nella città di Brasilia, inaugurata nel 1960.

Progettata dall'urbanista Lucio Costa con la celebre pianta a forma di aeroplano e impreziosita dagli edifici scultorei in cemento armato curvato di Oscar Niemeyer, la capitale testimonia come l'utopia architettonica modernista abbia saputo radicare nel cuore del Sudamerica una visione monumentale di progresso civile.

And it's a collaborative effort by the city, the BDA, and the ODA to build a spec MRO, which is maintenance, repair, and overhaul.

And it can house an aircraft up to the size of an Embraer 170 which to give you some idea of what that airplane looks like, it's a 98 feet in length and has an 85, almost 86 foot wingspan.

And it has a tail height of 32 feet.

So this hangar will have the highest door height of any hangar on the airfield at 38 feet.

Two weeks before Austin, there was a separate event at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

An American Eagle Embraer 170 was told to hold short of runway 4L.

The crew did not hold short.

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 was already rolling on a takeoff run.

Yes.

And J Air already operates exclusively E170 and E190 aircraft.

Interestingly, uh, only 14 E190s, so this would actually be an expansion of that particular fleet.

But who knows what they will do with their now aging 18 E170s, which are getting rarer and rarer out there.

But who knew? If you had asked me 10 years ago would ANA and JAL be ordering the E2, I don't think my answer would've been, "Yes, of course," because there's nothing else out there to order.

Yeah.

So for KLM Cityhopper, you've got all of your own fleet.

Um, it's basically an all-Embraer E-Jet fleet.

And over at SAS Link, you're much more dependent on outsourcing of the model.

You've got your own internal Embraer operations, and then also you go to a lot of wet lease providers.

If you step on a plane to a small airport nowadays, there's a good chance that it's either made by Embraer or Bombardier.

Embraer, the Brazilian manufacturer, launched their E-Jet family just over 15 years ago and to date have sold nearly 1,500 of them.

By all accounts, it's a fantastic airplane and there are whole airports that rely on them.

Nearly 70% of the more than 100 daily flights out of the small London City Airport operate using an Embraer E-Jet.

Due to the noise restrictions, steep approach angle, and short runway, this is one of the few planes that can operate there, and some airlines, such as British Airways, own the E-Jet exclusively for use at this airport.

The US, with its nearly 400 commercial airports and vast size, has service to many more smaller airports than Europe or Asia, thanks to government subsidies, so hundreds of airports in the US are served by non-Boeing or Airbus jets.

There's a serious place for small planes, and Bombardier knows this.