Transport Canada has certificated the Embraer 190-E2 and 195-E2, paving the way for delivery to Toronto-based Porter Airlines.

Porter has firm orders for 50 E195-E2s and the first example will be handed over at Embraer’s Sao Jose dos Campos plant “in the coming days”; it will become the first of the type to be operated in North America.

E195 exterior

Source: Porter Airlines

Porter could take up to 100 examples of E195-E2

The carrier could ultimately take up to 100 units of the Pratt & Whitney PW1900G-powered twinjet: it holds firm orders for 50 examples, plus 50 purchase rights.

Dating from two separate deals placed in 2021 and 2022, Embraer puts the total list-price value of the orders, if all options are exercised, at $7.38 billion. 

Porter plans for the E195-E2s to spearhead its westward expansion, opening routes from Toronto Pearson to Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver.

Dominic Perry is deputy editor of Flight International but also contributes extensively to flightglobal.com. Although specialising in the coverage of the helicopter industry, he has written on most topics in aerospace – be they commercial, defence or business aviation. In addition, there has been an increasing focus on the decarbonisation of the industry and zero-emission flight initiatives.View full Profile

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