Widerøe, a regional airline in Scandinavia, will be the first airline in the world to receive the brand-new E190-E2 jet, the first member of the E-Jets E2, and the second generation of the E-Jets family of commercial aircraft, the company said.
Widerøe has a contract with Embraer for up to 15 E2 family jets consisting of three firm orders for the E190-E2 and purchase rights for 12 further E2 family aircraft. The order has a potential list price value of up to USD 873 million, with all orders being exercised.
As the launch operator of the model, Widerøe will receive their first aircraft in the first half of 2018. Widerøe is configuring the E190-E2s in a comfortable single-class layout with 114 seats.
Embraer is a manufacturer of commercial jets with up to 130+ seats. The company has 100 customers globally operating the ERJ and the E-Jet families of aircraft. For the E-Jets program alone, Embraer has logged more than 1,700 orders and over 1,300 deliveries.
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