A Embraer is taking seriously the possibility of competing with Boeing and Airbus in the narrow-body jet segment, the one with the greatest demand in the commercial aviation market.
According to a report from the American newspaper Wall Street Journal This Wednesday, the Brazilian manufacturer carried out internal studies that confirmed that it has the technical knowledge and manufacturing capacity to “develop a next-generation narrow-body aircraft”.
The article cited people familiar with the matter, but did not detail further information about the team’s possible rival. Airbus A320 It’s from Boeing 737.
Currently, Embraer is the third largest manufacturer of commercial jets in the world, but a huge distance away from Airbus and Boeing in terms of orders.
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While the Brazilian company has 380 commercial aircraft pending delivery, Airbus has more than 8,600 jets to be delivered.
Your latest line, the E2 jetscan carry 100 to 146 passengers, rivaling variants such as the Boeing 737 MAX 7 and the Airbus A319neo, although offering a shorter range.
High investment
As we showed two months agoEmbraer is planning to launch a new line of aircraft within two years, but has not yet defined which segment it will choose.
Francisco Gomes Neto, CEO of the company, told Aviation Week that there are technical conditions for a larger commercial jet, however, it is not the time to launch it.
One of the challenges is raising the necessary financial resources for a program like this. The most likely path is with venture partners, possibly from countries with a large potential market like India.
Despite this, it is a type of aircraft with enormous demand, frustrated by problems on the Airbus and, above all, Boeing assembly lines.
The US giant is at a dead end with the 737. It can even solve the aircraft’s technical and quality problems, but it knows that the aircraft has aged and is at the limit of its possibilities.
A gift for airlines and lessors
An eventual jet designed from scratch by Embraer has ample possibility of proving more attractive and efficient than even the celebrated A320neo family.
For airlines and lessors, a new player This would be great news as the current situation is worrying, with one supplier overloaded (Airbus) and another shaken by scandals (Boeing).
The question, however, is timing. Would this hypothetical aircraft rely on current turbofans and their still high carbon emissions? Could the jet be prepared to absorb new technologies? Or would it be better to wait for a definition of alternative propulsion?
These are answers that Embraer executives will have to bring to the table before a decision in favor of the project is made.
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