Boeing and Embraer signed collaboration agreement after Bombardier (which is Canadian) and Comac (which is Chinese) signed another collaboration agreement.
What’s different about the two agreements is that Bombardier and Comac are collaborating on building similar-sized aircraft, on the bottom end of the commercial aircraft hierarchy, while the Boeing-Embraer pact seems to accept the size division between them.
Boeing, Brazil's Embraer sign collaboration pact
Date: Monday, April 9, 2012, 2:55pm PDT - Last Modified: Monday, April 9, 2012, 3:13pm PDT
Boeing and Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer S.A. signed a collaboration agreement Monday that codifies what has become a de facto market split between the two.
In the agreement, the two companies committed to collaborate on “aircraft efficiency and safety, productivity and research,” in an identical release both sent out. The agreement was signed in Washington, D.C.
Interestingly, the Boeing-Embraer pact comes just a month after aircraft builder Bombardier (which is Canadian) and Comac (which is Chinese) signed another collaboration agreement.
What’s different about the two agreements is that Bombardier and Comac are collaborating on building similar-sized aircraft, on the bottom end of the commercial aircraft hierarchy, while the Boeing-Embraer pact seems to accept the size division between them.
Currently, Embraer’s largest aircraft is the E-195 series, which tops out at about 124 seats, while Boeing’s smallest aircraft is the 737-700, (and its successor, the 737 Max-7), at about 126 seats in a two-class configuration.
But nearly all Boeing 737 sales have been for aircraft larger than the 700 series, while Embraer has, at least in the near term, abandoned trying to be able to break into Boeing’s category.
“That’s when Embraer and Bombardier are coming in on the low end of that ... |
