Paris 2011: Embraer carefully considers its narrowbody options
Embraer will wait 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

Embraer will wait 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 family of aircraft, Embraer executive vice president for the airline market Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva told AIN in an interview ahead of this week’s Paris Air Show. Still, Embraer already knows what it will not do–namely, follow Bombardier into a size and range category that, in de Souza’s estimation, the Airbus A320neo also occupies.

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