{"id":2939,"date":"2018-11-05T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2018-11-05T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:39:13","slug":"american-airlines-buys-additional-embraer-jets-worth-705-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Buys Additional Embraer E175 Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil, November 5, 2018 \u2013 Embraer and American Airlines Inc. signed a firm order for 15 E175 jets in a 76-seat configuration. The contract has a value of USD 705 million, based on current list prices, and will be included in Embraer\u2019s 2018 fourth-quarter backlog. Deliveries will take place in 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n

Combined with the airline\u2019s previous orders for the E175, this new contract results in a total of 104 E175 jets for American Airlines since 2013. The most recent order took place in May 2018 for 15 aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

American Airlines selected Envoy, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group, to operate the 15 aircraft, which will be configured with a total of 76 seats, being 12 in First Class and 64 in Main Cabin, including Main Cabin Extra seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis new order from American Airlines continues to show the value that airlines place on our best-selling E175 aircraft,\u201d said Charlie Hillis, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, North America, Embraer Commercial Aviation. \u201cWe are fully committed to providing fleet solutions that have a positive bottom line impact, and our E175 leads the charge with over 80 percent market share in the North American market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Including this new contract, Embraer has sold more than 435 E175s to airlines in North America since January 2013, earning more than 80% of all orders in this 76-seat jet segment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Embraer is the world\u2019s leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats. The Company has 100 customers from all over the world operating the ERJ and E-Jet families of aircraft. For the E-Jets program alone, Embraer has logged more than 1,800 orders and 1,400 deliveries, redefining the traditional concept of regional aircraft. <\/span><\/p>\n

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image and story from\u00a0www.embraer.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil, November 5, 2018 \u2013 Embraer and American Airlines Inc. signed a firm order for 15 E175 jets in a 76-seat configuration. The contract has a value of USD 705 million, based on current list prices, and will be included in Embraer\u2019s 2018 fourth-quarter backlog. Deliveries will take place in 2020. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,1397,868,1103],"tags":[2161,1649,2162,629,539,464,118,116,184,2163,2159,692,168,992,1243,2166,1269,745,1841,1898,2165,995,1089,2158,963,2160,2164],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-2161","tag-1649","tag-2162","tag-aal","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airlines","tag-american","tag-brazil","tag-configuration","tag-dos-campos","tag-e175","tag-embraer","tag-envoy","tag-erj","tag-extra","tag-firm","tag-group","tag-inc","tag-jets","tag-main-cabin","tag-order","tag-regional","tag-sao-jose","tag-seat","tag-sign","tag-subsidiary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}