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- Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 12. Preliminary Design; Requirements Definition.
- GE advances on RISE’s dust ingestion, installation testing
- Heading toward year-end, Airbus maintains lead in narrowbody orders but Boeing commands the widebody sector
- Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 11. Interior Preliminary Design.
- Airbus Balances Automation and Airmanship
Embraer E2 Finally Breaks Into The U.S. Market Following 50 Firm Orders +50 Purchase Rights from ULCC Avelo Airlines
By Chris Sloan Sept. 10, 2025, © Leeham News: Embraer announced today that Embraer’s E2 will finally break into the U.S. market with a firm order from ULCC Avelo for 50 E2-E195s and 50 purchase rights, becoming E2’s… Read More
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Posted on September 10, 2025 by Chris Sloan
Airbus’ jetBlue A220 deal, first analysis
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction July 12, 2018, © Leeham News: The Airbus A220 won its first battle against Embraer’s E2 E-Jets, winning the order to replace 60 Embraer E190s at jetBlue. The airline held a telephone… Read More
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Posted on July 12, 2018 by Bjorn Fehrm
Embraer sees broadening market in North America
Subscription Required Introduction Nov. 17, 2015, © Leeham Co. The chief commercial officer of Embraer sees US mainline carriers adding John Slattery, Chief Commercial Officer, Embraer. Photo via Google images. aircraft in the 100-plus seat sector that will… Read More
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Posted on November 17, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airlines, American Airlines, Bombardier, CSeries, E-Jet, Embraer, Premium, United Airlines, US Airways
737-7 A319, 737-700, Air Canada, Airbus, airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CS100, CS300, CSeries, E-175, E-190, E-190 E2, E-195, E-195 E2, E175 E2, Embraer, JetBlue, John Slattery, United Airlines, United Express, US Airways, World Trade Organization, WTO
Embraer faces new challenge from MRJ90
Part 2 Sept. 10, 2015, © Leeham Co. Embraer is the dominant producer of commercial aircraft in the 70-125 seat sector, having overtaken Bombardier in the last decade following the development and 2004 introduction of the E-Jet. Bombardier’s CRJ… Read More
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Posted on September 10, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Airlines, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Mitsubishi
767, A320, A400M, Airbus, Boeing 737, Bombardier, C-130, CRJ, E-175, E-175-E2, E-190, E-190 E2, E-195, E-Jet, Embraer, International Aero Engines, KC-390, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, MD-90, Mitsubishi, MRJ90, Paulo Cesar, Q400, SkyWest Airlines, Trans States Airlines, V2500
Embraer CEO talks about risks
Subscription Required Introduction Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar Silva. Photo: AINOnline via Google Images. June 22, 2015, Paris Air Show, © Leeham Co. Embraer has emerged as the#3 commercial aircraft producer over the years, behind Airbus and Boeing and… Read More
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Posted on June 22, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Embraer gains 125 orders at half-year
June 17, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. With focus, as always, on Airbus and Boeing, and an airplane that neither exists nor is about to any time in the near-term (the Middle of the Market aircraft),… Read More
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Posted on June 17, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
2015 a year of execution for Embraer commercial
Subscription Required Introduction Jan. 7, 2015: Embraer, the world’s #3 commercial airplane manufacturer, enters 2015 viewing this as a year of execution, says its chief commercial officer, John S. Slattery. There are three pillars: Continuing to fill out… Read More
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Posted on January 7, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
“We need more than one family,” says Embraer COO
Subscription required. Now open to all Readers. (Nov. 29, 2014) Introduction Oct. 15, 2014: Embraer had the opportunity to design a clean-sheet airplane as a successor to the E-Jet to respond to the Bombardier CSeries, with the 100-110… Read More
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Posted on October 15, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney
Airbus, ATR, ATR 42, ATR-72, Boeing, Bombardier, E-175, E-190, E-195, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, Luis Carlos Affonso
Assessing the 100-149 Seat Sector
Introduction Oct. 12, 2014, (c) Leeham Co.: The 100-149 seat market sector has long been criticized as irrelevant because of a string of poor-selling aircraft. Boeing officials even labeled this a Bermuda Triangle. The critics fail to recognize,… Read More
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Posted on October 12, 2014 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer
727-100, 737 Classic, 737-200, 737-600, 737-7, 737-700, A318, A319ceo, A319neo, Airbus, B717, BAC-111, BAe-146, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, British Aircraft Corp., CS-100, CS-300, CSeries, DC-9, E-195, E-195 E2, E-Jet, E-Jet E2, Embraer, F-100, Fokker, MD-80, MD-95
Assessing the 70-90 seat regional jet sector
Introduction Major orders last week for Bombardier and Mitsubishi and the release of the Airbus Global Market Forecast provide an opportunity to look at market segments that don’t get a lot of attention in the shadow of the… Read More
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Posted on October 5, 2014 by Scott Hamilton