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07/06/2005
Flybe announces purchase of new aircraft
Low cost airline Flybe has confirmed a $950 million deal with Embraer to purchase up to 26 of the firm’s 195 aircraft.
Flybe is set to take delivery of its first 195 in Autumn 2006. The planes, which seats 118 people, will initially be deployed at the airline’s major bases in Birmingham, Southampton, Belfast, Exeter, Jersey, Guernsey, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Flybe has agreed to purchase at least 14 of the Embraer 195 planes, with an option to purchase another 12, which give the company a total fleet size of between 59 and 91 aircraft by 2009.
The 195 will replace Flybe’s 146 Bae fleet and the airline said that it would bring cost and service efficiencies, as well as give the company “the youngest fleet in the airline sector”.
Jim French, Chairman and Managing Director of Flybe, said: “The Embraer 195 is ideally suited to meet the needs of our domestic and regionally focused business model. The airplane has seat costs on the sector lengths we fly which are comparable with larger jets, while with 118 seats has a capacity level which suits the thinner UK regional markets we serve. In short, the Embraer 195 allows us to deliver our famous low fares to all the regions we serve, and allows us to do it profitably, while at the same time increasing the number of regions we can serve with direct European services.”
The 195, which is the largest aircraft in the Embraer 170/195 family, completed its first flight in November 2004. It is a narrow bodied aircraft, ideally suited to stage lengths of between 600nm and 2000nm, which features the latest in technology, such as fly-by-wire systems and weight reductions designed to improve economy.
(KMcA/SP)
Flybe is set to take delivery of its first 195 in Autumn 2006. The planes, which seats 118 people, will initially be deployed at the airline’s major bases in Birmingham, Southampton, Belfast, Exeter, Jersey, Guernsey, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Flybe has agreed to purchase at least 14 of the Embraer 195 planes, with an option to purchase another 12, which give the company a total fleet size of between 59 and 91 aircraft by 2009.
The 195 will replace Flybe’s 146 Bae fleet and the airline said that it would bring cost and service efficiencies, as well as give the company “the youngest fleet in the airline sector”.
Jim French, Chairman and Managing Director of Flybe, said: “The Embraer 195 is ideally suited to meet the needs of our domestic and regionally focused business model. The airplane has seat costs on the sector lengths we fly which are comparable with larger jets, while with 118 seats has a capacity level which suits the thinner UK regional markets we serve. In short, the Embraer 195 allows us to deliver our famous low fares to all the regions we serve, and allows us to do it profitably, while at the same time increasing the number of regions we can serve with direct European services.”
The 195, which is the largest aircraft in the Embraer 170/195 family, completed its first flight in November 2004. It is a narrow bodied aircraft, ideally suited to stage lengths of between 600nm and 2000nm, which features the latest in technology, such as fly-by-wire systems and weight reductions designed to improve economy.
(KMcA/SP)
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