{"id":3671,"date":"2019-02-03T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2019-02-03T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T06:45:15","slug":"embraer-and-skywest-sign-contract-for-nine-e175-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3671","title":{"rendered":"Embraer and SkyWest Sign Contract for Nine E175 Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil, January 31st, 2018 \u2013 Embraer and SkyWest, Inc. have signed a firm order for nine E175 jets, with deliveries expected to begin in 2019. The order has a value of USD 422 million, based on current list prices, and was already included in Embraer\u2019s 2018 fourth-quarter backlog. SkyWest Airlines will operate all nine E175s, featuring a 76-seat configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since 2013, SkyWest has purchased a total of 158 E175s, including these nine, in order to expand their large existing fleet of Embraer aircraft,&#8221; said Charlie Hillis, Vice President, Sales &amp; Marketing, North America, Embraer Commercial Aviation. &#8220;We are extremely proud of their ongoing support for the E-Jets program and the fact that the E175 continues to outperform in North America. Without a doubt, the E175 has become the backbone of the regional aviation market in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re pleased to continue adding new E175 aircraft under long-term contract to our increasingly efficient, agile and flexible fleet,&#8221; said SkyWest Chief Executive Officer and President Chip Childs. &#8220;We appreciate Embraer\u2019s strong partnership and remain impressed with the Embraer product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Including this new contract, Embraer has sold more than 565 E175s to airlines in North America, since January 2013, earning more than 80% of all orders in this 70-76-seat jet segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SkyWest, Inc. is a premier regional airline company and the holding company of SkyWest Airlines. SkyWest holds a long history with Embraer as early customers for the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia turboprop aircraft.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since entering revenue service, the E-Jets family has received more than 1,800 orders and over 1,500 aircraft have been delivered. Today, E-Jets are flying in the fleet of 70 customers in 50 countries. The versatile 70 to 150-seat family is flying with low-cost airlines as well as with regional and mainline carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-02-at-11.40.45-PM.png?fit=640%2C299\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3672\" width=\"618\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-02-at-11.40.45-PM.png 1914w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-02-at-11.40.45-PM-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-02-at-11.40.45-PM-768x360.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-02-at-11.40.45-PM-1024x479.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Story and image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embraer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/www.embraer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil, January 31st, 2018 \u2013 Embraer and SkyWest, Inc. have signed a firm order for nine E175 jets, with deliveries expected to begin in 2019. The order has a value of USD 422 million,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,799,2203,868,1103],"tags":[118,41,2850,692,168,1898,2169,117],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-finance-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-airlines","tag-boeing","tag-e-jet","tag-e175","tag-embraer","tag-jets","tag-program","tag-skywest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}