Avelo Airways will add as much as 100 Embraer E195-E2s to its fleet below a brand new cope with the Brazilian aircraft maker.
The Houston-based discounter ordered 50 agency E195-E2s — plus 50 buy rights — with deliveries starting within the first quarter of 2027, mentioned Arjan Meijer, CEO of Embraer Business Aviation, at an occasion in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The order is Embraer’s first for the E195-E2 within the U.S.
Andrew Levy, CEO of Avelo, mentioned the E2s will complement the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737-800s and, because of the E2’s smaller measurement, allow development to extra small and mid-sized markets throughout the U.S.
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“After we go into numerous new markets, or markets by no means served earlier than, it takes a very long time to develop these markets,” mentioned Levy. “This airplane goes to assist us achieve success to construct out the [significant] alternative we see within the market.”
Avelo’s E195-E2s will seat round 140 passengers in an all-economy format, Levy mentioned. He didn’t specify what number of customary economic system and extra-legroom economic system seats are deliberate for the planes.
Avelo configures its 14 737-800s with 189 seats.
The Embraer order comes amid a interval of change for Avelo. The airline faces continued controversy over its resolution to function deportation flights from the U.S. for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And in July it introduced that it will finish operations on the U.S. West Coast and exit 10 cities by December.
Earlier in September, Avelo mentioned it closed a spherical of “important” new funding.
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That funding contains Embraer, The Air Present reported. Each Avelo and Embraer executives declined to touch upon the reporting.
It comes after a tough begin to 2025 for the provider’s funds.
In response to questions over Avelo’s $13.7 million working loss within the first quarter, Levy mentioned the airline confronted elevated competitors in a few of its core markets, notably Connecticut. Competitors has since abated and Avelo has made changes to its route map to handle among the losses, he added.
“We did not simply get silly within the first quarter,” Levy added.
Embraers for development
Avelo’s new E195-E2s will nearly totally be for development, Levy mentioned. Whereas he wouldn’t title a particular vacation spot the airline may add with the aircraft, he famous airports with comparatively quick runways of 5,000 ft or much less in size are “in play” with the E2.
Embraer will set up its short-field efficiency package deal on Avelo’s E2s, permitting the planes to fly a number of hundred extra miles from the airports with quick runways than comparably sized planes. The planemaker cited Key West Worldwide Airport (EYW) with its 5,076-foot lengthy runway for instance the place the extra vary could possibly be helpful.
Avelo will add EYW to its map on Nov. 19 with twice-weekly flights on Wednesdays and Saturdays from Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) in Connecticut.
Apart from airports with quick runways, Avelo additionally sees alternative for the E2 to fill out its operations at a few of its smaller bases. At Lakeland Linder Worldwide Airport (LAL) in Florida, for instance, Levy mentioned the aircraft may open new flights to some main airports already on its map, like Baltimore-Washington Worldwide Airport (BWI) and Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport (ORD).
The E195-E2 can fly as much as 3,450 miles — or concerning the distance from Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport (ANC) in Alaska to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL) — in keeping with the planemaker.
A twin E2 and 737 fleet
Avelo goals for a twin fleet of 737-800s and E195-E2s within the coming years, Levy mentioned. The eight 737-700s it flies shall be retired as because the E2s arrive.
The E195-E2s value roughly 30% much less to function than the 737-700, Embraer’s Meijer mentioned. Levy touted the E2s shorter vary and 2-2 seating format for Avelo’s selection of the Embraer household over Airbus’ competing A220.
“I’ve at all times wished a brand new model of the MD-80,” he mentioned referring to the McDonnell Douglas narrowbody that was well-liked with airways within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. “A 150-seat airplane that may fly 4-5 hours.”
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