Embraer Carefully Considers its Single-Aisle Options
Embraer will wait until as late as year-end for Boeing to decide on a plan for a 737 replacement before the Brazilian company commits to a successor for i
Embraer executive vice president for the airline market Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva (Photo: Embraer)
Embraer executive vice president for the airline market Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva (Photo: Embraer)

Embraer will wait until as late as year-end for Boeing to decide on a plan for a 737 replacement before the Brazilian company commits to a successor for its own E-Jet series, according to Embraer executive vice president for the airline market Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva. Still, Embraer already knows what it will not do–namely, follow Bombardier into a size and range category that, in Silva’s estimation, the Airbus A320neo also occupies.

“We believe the [Bombardier] C Series proposition, in terms of range, is too much,” said Silva. “Airlines won’t pay for something they will not use.”