Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Regional Airline Has 10 More Aircraft On Order
Embraer held a delivery ceremony Wednesday at the
Company’s headquarters in São José dos Campos,
Brazil, of an Embraer 175 jet to Trip Linhas Aéreas, the
largest Brazilian regional airline. The company has five firm
orders for the Embraer 175, in a deal that includes options for
another ten aircraft and purchase rights for 15 more.
“We are very proud and happy to receive Trip as our new
E-Jets customer in Brazil,” says Frederico Fleury Curado,
Embraer President and CEO. “We are certain that together,
Embraer and Trip will make a big contribution to the Brazilian air
transportation system.”
The new aircraft that will be delivered will join Trip’s
fleet, which currently has another two Embraer 175 jets – and
this E-Jet model is operating in Brazil for the first time –
all of which are configured to comfortably accommodate 86
passengers in a single-class layout. The airplanes are being
financed conjointly, in Brazilian Reals, by the National Social
Development Bank (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Social –
BNDES) and the Bank of Brazil. “We began operating in the
regional market 11 years ago, with a pre-owned 30-seat EMB 120
Brasilia, when modern services seemed like a distant dream. Today,
we are the leader in the regional market and, with the acquisition
of the jets by Embraer, a company that has marked our history as a
great partner, we have become the regional airline that most
invests in Brazil,” states José Mário Caprioli,
President of Trip. According to Caprioli, the total investments in
technology, linked to a team of professional partners throughout
this entire time, have made the difference.
The new route network of the company includes flights leaving
from Santos Dumont Airport, connecting Rio de Janeiro to 42 cities
in all regions of Brazil, 13 of which are nonstop. The operation
was strategically developed so that the new Embraer 175 jets
operate in a synchronized fashion with the turboprops, thus
optimizing the connections of Trip’s main hub airports with
several Brazilian cities. The routes also offer connections to
cities in all regions of Brazil and a few capital cities, providing
greater flexibility for passenger travel.
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