For this week’s #Flight Friday we look at Embraer’s E190-E2 and E195-E2.
The E2 first entered the market when an E190-E2 was delivered to Norway’s Wideroe back in April 2018. Its larger sibling, the E195-E2 was first delivered to Brazil’s Azul in September 2019.
Since the first deliveries, a total of 95 Pratt & Whitney PW1900 (GTF)-powered E2s have been delivered.
Embraer recently had the news that the E195-E2 has received it type certificate in China, giving the program a possible new market to sell into. However, the E2s have also been caught up in the GTF’s durability issues.
Data shows that from August 2022 through to April 2023, flight hours were relatively depressed when compared to the in-service fleet (ISF), due to operators having to remove engines to resolve the durability issues, which were not helped by a lack of spares, trained workforce, long turnaround times, and available space with the engine MRO shops. Since then, utilization of the E195-E2 has seen an uptick, showing that Pratt GTF issues for the E2s are becoming a thing of the past. With an orderbook in excess of 150 aircraft, Embraer still have plenty of aircraft outstanding to deliver.
The slightly less popular E190-E2—currently with only 16 outstanding orders—also suffered from the GTF engine issues in the 2022 fourth quarter and in the first quarter of 2023, but again we see some rebound in the utilization numbers there.
This data was put together using Aviation Week’s Tracked Aircraft Utilization tool.
