Brazilian jet maker, Embraer received a firm order from SkyWest Inc. the holding company of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, for Embraer’s E175 jets.
SkyWest has booked a total of 7 E175 jets, which will be operated by SkyWest Airlines under a capacity purchase agreement with Alaska Airlines.
The order is valued at $301 million at list prices and deliveries are slated to begin in the second half of 2015.
This order brings Embraer’s firm order count from SkyWest to a total of 47 E175 jets. SkyWest had earlier placed an order for 100 E175 current generation E-jets in May 2013, out of which only 40 were firm orders.
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