Embraer's Book-to-Bill Target Under Threat as Sales Slump
Embraer continues to project E-Jet output for next year will match this year's total of 110. (Photo: Embraer)
Embraer continues to project E-Jet output for next year will match this year's total of 110. (Photo: Embraer)

While today’s announcement of a firm order for six E190s from Venezuela’s Conviasa Airlines might have helped buoy Embraer’s general outlook, the deal hardly assuaged concerns among financial analysts over an airliner backlog that at the end of the second quarter had shrunk to a six-year low. On March 31 this year it stood at $14.7 billion, and over the course of the second quarter it dropped to 200 airplanes worth $12.9 billion. At its peak, at the end of the third quarter of 2008, it had reached $21.6 billion.