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Embraer has decided to re-engine its E-Jets.
Oman Air Embraer 175
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Despite CEO Frederico Curado’s recent expression of reticence over the possibility of re-engining of Embraer’s E-Jet line of airliners, the Brazilian company apparently has decided to spend $2 billion on a project to do just that by 2018. Last week Embraer commercial aircraft president Paulo Cesar Souza e Silva confirmed the plans, including the possibility of stretching the E195 by some 10 seats, reducing to virtually nil the chances for development of a new narrowbody this decade.  

During a November 3 briefing on the company’s third-quarter financial results, Curado effecively confirmed the company’s loss of interest in introducing a new airliner into the seat-capacity segment extending into the range of the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320neo.