South American airline giant LATAM has just placed an order for an aircraft that’s becoming increasingly popular in recent times, and it seems like a good fit for the airline.
Continue reading: LATAM Orders Up To 74 Embraer E195-E2s, For Regional Fleet Renewal
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While others might disagree, I've always preferred an Embraer over a CRJ. It has more overhead storage space.
Were it not for the Scope Clause, Embraer would dominate the short haul domestic US market, regional and mainline.
even though US scope limits make the E jets and the CRJ family competitors, the E jets are really slotted between the CRJ and what was the C Series (now the A220 family).
The A220 is a wider and more spacious aircraft than the E or E2 and has more overhead bin space.
Bombardier just chose to move out of the regional airline game and into the small mainline aircraft market. They nailed it technically and from a product standpoint but struggled commercializing the product which is why Airbus ended up w/ it after Boeing tried to shut down the C Series.
They didn’t struggle to commercialize the c-series. Bombardier totally underestimated the R&D costs of developing a mainline jet, ran out of money halfway through the project, and Airbus had to bail them out by taking over the project.
Great aircraft. Super comfortable. I wonder how its High/Hot performance would be in Bolivia, Chile, etc....
The A220 is French-Canadian Airbus crap. The fact that Delta purchases them just verifies that fact.
While I usually agree with Ben´s insights, I actually think these planes are indeed meant to open up new routes rather than to start replacing A319s. My reasoning being that, even though both planes have a similar capacity in terms of seats, the economics of the E195-E2 make it viable to operate in markets where the cost of operating an A319 CEO wouldn´t make sense. And it doesn´t hurt that these birds don´t pay import fees (well except for the many imported parts!).
All this comment shows, is that you don't actually know what Scope Clauses even are.
They cannot (by their very definition) hinder the aircraft from operating mainline, so they can't possibly be a reason why it's not "dominating" mainline already, if indeed it ever could.
That "French-Canadian Airbus crap" is miles ahead of anything produced by t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶e̶p̶t̶s̶ Boeing over the past 25 years.
You are, remarkably, the worst commenter on this site, ORD, and that’s saying something.
It’s a disgrace that Ben hasn’t banned you because you’re a psychotic bigot.