Aircraft
Recovery crawls but Embraer won’t stall
Embraer has resigned itself to a slower rate recovery for the business aviation market, further downgrading its anticipated delivery rates for 2011 compare

Embraer has resigned itself to a slower rate recovery for the business aviation market, further downgrading its anticipated delivery rates for 2011 compared with those envisaged by the forecast it issued last year. In March, the Brazilian airframer revised its output projections, indicating that total bizjet deliveries for the whole industry could dip this year by as many as 50 units less than the 2010 total of 763.

“We now see stronger recovering really starting only in 2012 and 2013 if economic conditions [between now and then] prove to be stable,” Claudio Camelier, marketing vice president for Embraer’s executive aircraft division told a press briefing ahead of this year’s EBACE show. The company doesn’t now envisage a return to 2008 delivery levels until 2017.