Embraer: November 2007 Archives

One largely unreported story from Dubai is beginning to gain a bit of clarity:

Green aircraft to replace 737
By Ivan Gale, Staff Reporter
Gulfnews.com

In the next 18 months, Boeing expects to arrive at a design template for the 737 replacement, with "notional entry into service" around the middle of the next decade.

"The technology to create an airplane that could economically obsolete the 737 and Airbus 320 class of airplanes looks to us to be around 2015, give or take," Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Scott Carson told Gulf News.

So how much business is at stake over the next twenty years in the single aisle market? Both Airbus and Boeing agree that there is no less than $1 trillion available between now and 2026. If you average delivery forecast from both manufacturers you have more than 16,000 new single aisle aircraft rolling off the assembly lines in the next two decades.

DUBAI -- The Saudi Arabian low cost carrier NAS Air will purchase more than 15 Embraer E190/195 jets Monday at the 2007 Dubai Air Show, Flightblogger has exclusively learned.

When asked about the size of the order, Embraer spokesman say that the order is expected to be larger than the previous record holding Gulf customer, Saudi Arabian Airlines, which operates 15 E170 aircraft on domestic and regional routes. This order would make it the largest order by a Gulf customer.

In addition, the spokesman speculated that the order was to be on par with the Virgin Nigeria order for seven E170 and three E 190 and rights and options for an additional fourteen aircraft recorded Sunday.

The Brazillian E-Jets will join a fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft on its low cost operations out of Ryiadh. NAS Air signed a of a letter of intent June 22 at the 2007 Paris Air Show for up to 38 A320s.