AMSTERDAM, July 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Helvetic Airways has signed a commitment with
Embraer to convert four of their remaining firm orders to the
larger E195-E2 aircraft. The original order, for 12 E190-E2s with
purchase rights for a further 12, and conversion rights to E195-E2,
was announced in September 2018.
Embraer has so far delivered five E190-E2s to Helvetic Airways, and
all deliveries of the remaining seven aircraft, including the four
E195-E2s, will be completed before the end of 2021, with the
majority in the first half of 2021.
The remaining firm order for the seven aircraft to be delivered
has a value of USD 480 million, based
on current list prices. With all the purchase rights being
exercised, the deal has a list price of USD
1.25 billion.
In a move to diversify fleet capacity, Helvetic Airways will
configure the E195-E2 with 134 seats in a single class layout,
while their E190-E2s have 110 seats. This gives Helvetic Airways
the ability to alter their offering for airlines and other
customers and to meet the actual passenger demand for each mission;
very useful in the current environment where demand is seeing
significant fluctuations. This ability, to dynamically 'rightsize'
to meet their customers' demand, is operationally possible due to
the common E2 cockpit allowing flight crews to operate across all
E2 variants.
The new E195-E2 provides greater capacity, whilst being more
sustainable and quiet; the E195-E2 burns 10% less fuel per flight,
emits 30% less CO2 per passenger, and is 48% quieter than the E190
aircraft it replaces in Helvetic's fleet.
Helvetic Airways CEO Tobias
Pogorevc, said "The Embraer E195-E2 strikes a good balance
between seating capacity, range, fuel consumption and
environmentally friendly operation. With between 120 and 150 seats,
it has virtually no competition in the regional aircraft segment.
Operating a single fleet – in terms of cockpit – with varying
seating capacities will enable us to expand our organisation's
operational flexibility and autonomy."
"Helvetic Airways is powered by a high performance culture, the
airline already manages to deliver greater fuel and emissions
efficiency from its current E2s than Embraer advertises; and the E2
is already the most efficient single-aisle aircraft family on the
market", said Martyn Holmes, Vice
President Europe, Russia and
Central Asia at Embraer Commercial
Aviation. "Innovative and successful airlines operating our
jets is the greatest advertisement for our aircraft, and acting now
to ensure the best capacity diversity for their fleet sets Helvetic
Airways up for further success, even in these challenging
times."
For nearly two decades, Embraer's innovative E-Jets family has
been transforming commercial aviation. It is the industry's most
successful line of 70-to-150-seat passenger jets designed
specifically for this capacity segment. The program has logged in
excess of 1,900 orders to date from more than 100 customers. Some
80 airlines currently fly Embraer E-Jets. The global E-Jet fleet
has accumulated more than 30 million flight hours, with an average
mission completion rate of 99.9%. The versatile airplanes are
flying with low-cost, regional and mainline carriers.
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Brazil, Embraer celebrates its
50th anniversary with businesses in Commercial and Executive
aviation, Defense & Security and Agricultural Aviation. The
company designs, develops, manufactures and markets aircraft and
systems, providing Services & Support to customers
after-sales.
Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than
8,000 aircraft. On average, about every 10 seconds an aircraft
manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world,
transporting over 145 million passengers a year.
Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150
seats and the main exporter of high value-added goods in
Brazil. The company maintains
industrial units, offices, service and parts distribution centers,
among other activities, across the Americas, Africa, Asia
and Europe.
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