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Embraer ponders mainline jet–but this must compete internally with other projects
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Embraer Group CEO Francisco Gomes Neto. Credit: Embraer. Nov. 6, 2025, © Leeham News: When it comes to new airplane development, Airbus and Boeing get all the headlines. The world’s third-largest airplane manufacturer,… Read More
Embraer focuses on production, supply chain efficiency, cost reduction
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Nov. 3, 2025, © Leeham News: Like Airbus, Boeing, and the engine manufacturers, Embraer is devoting millions of dollars to making its production more efficient and less costly. It’s also working with its… Read More
Outlook 2024: Embraer’s continued recovery
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm January 8, 2024, © Leeham News: Embraer was hit by a double whammy before and during COVID. The non-closure of the merger of Boeing’s and Embraer’s Commercial Aircraft Divisions and the halving of… Read More
Embraer’s C-390 builds momentum; civilian freighter pondered
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Dec. 11, 2023, © Leeham News: Embraer’s flagship defense program, the KC/C-390 finally took off this year. Orders began rolling in, after a long drought and cancellations by the Brazilian government that cast… Read More
Pontifications: Embraer sees easing in pilot shortage, wave of sales coming
By Scott Hamilton Dec. 5, 2023, © Leeham News: Embraer officials see the pilot shortage easing in 2025 or 2026. Francisco Gomes Netos, CEO of the Embraer group, said during a media briefing last month that the “situation”… Read More
Embraer 2nd Quarter 2023 results show a positive trend
By Bjorn Fehrm August 14, 2023, ©. Leeham News: Embraer presented its 2Q2023 results today. Commercial aircraft deliveries increased to 24 E-jets jets for 1H2023 compared with 17 E-jets in 1H2022, and Executive jets delivered 38 jets (29)… Read More
Embraer gears for growth
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm June 1, 2023, © Leeham News: We attended a briefing on Embraer’s strategy for the years ahead last week. The company has regrouped after the failed Joint Venture with Boeing in 2020 and… Read More
HOTR: Boeing resumes 787 deliveries after long hiatus
By the Leeham News Team Aug. 10, 2022, © Leeham News: Deliveries of the Boeing 787 are slated to resume today after a pause of nearly two years. American Airlines is set to receive a 787-8. The Federal… Read More
Embraer 1Q2022 results; lower deliveries as Commercial aircraft division is re-integrated
By Bjorn Fehrm April 5, 2021, ©. Leeham News: Embraer presented its 1Q2022 results today. The airframer had lower deliveries for Commercial aircraft and Business jets than in the 1st quarter of last year after shutting down production… Read More
HOTR: 787 delivery restart appears to slip to April: customers
By the Leeham News Staff Nov. 30, 2021, © Leeham News: Plans to resume deliveries of the Boeing 787—halted since October 2020—appear to be slipping again. Customers tell LNA that deliveries may not resume until April, a slip… Read More