Aircraft
Embraer To Launch New Airplane Program by End of 2010
Brazil’s Embraer will decide on the platform for a new aircraft program by the end of this year, company executive vice president Mauro Kern told AIN today

Brazil’s Embraer will decide on the platform for a new aircraft program by the end of this year, company executive vice president Mauro Kern told AIN today. Kern’s revelation came just days after the company announced the establishment of a new division called New Programs–Airline Market to explore potential markets and options for a successor to its line of 70- to 110-seat airliners.

Embraer will initially staff the new division with between 30 and 40 employees, said Kern, then expand it to employ “in the hundreds” by the time the company decides on a new platform by year-end. Recruited to lead the new division full time, Kern last served as Embraer’s executive vice president for the airline market–a position he filled for now CEO Frederico Curado when Curado took the reins of the company from retired chief executive Mauricio Botelho.