Embraer delivers first of 20 new planes to Mexicana de Aviación

Mexico’s state-owned hose Mexicana de Aviación welcomed the archetypal of 20 Embraer E195-E2 craft connected Tuesday, marking the opening of a large enlargement phase. 

President Claudia Sheinbaum officially received the craft astatine Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) successful Mexico City, alongside different officials, including the Defense Minister, the Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT) Minister and the politician of México state.

The acquisition of 20 planes marks the opening of a large enlargement for Mexicana, for which the hose is grooming 56 pilots and 84 formation attendants. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

“Mexicana de Aviación is not astir nostalgia for the past, it is simply a stake connected the future,” Sheinbaum said during the event. “It is simply a institution that is being created with caller principles, transparency, inclusion, efficiency, societal work and a consciousness of nationhood … it is simply a connection to the people: ‘You person the close to fly.’”  

The transportation of 20 planes implicit 2 years comes aft the Mexican authorities signed a 20 billion-peso (US $1 billion) acquisition statement with the Brazilian institution Embraer. Five craft volition beryllium delivered successful 2025, followed by 7 successful 2026 and the last 8 successful 2027. 

Mexicana is presently grooming 56 pilots and 84 formation attendants successful mentation for the company’s expansion. 

Having a state-owned hose is important for mobilizing the population, resources and information forces successful exigency situations, earthy disasters and logistical operations, said Mexicana’s CEO Leobardo Ávila Bojórquez.

The Embraer E195-E2 has a capableness for 132 passengers and tin scope speeds of up to 963 kilometers per hour. Its aerodynamic design, consisting of lightweight, composite materials, helps to trim operating costs, and its latest-generation engines person a fuel-saving capableness of 30%, according to the company. 

The craft has a scope of 4,615 km, which volition let it to scope parts of North, Central and South America from AIFA. 

Mexicana’s archetypal Embraer 195-E2 is expected to marque its inaugural commercialized formation by August 25, followed by a 2nd craft connected September 12. 

The airline, which began operations successful precocious 2023, presently has six main routes. 

In June 2024, Bojórquez announced plans to grow Mexicana’s routes successful the adjacent 3 years to see 11 planetary destinations successful the United States, Canada and Latin America, with bases successful Tijuana, Baja California and Tulum, arsenic good arsenic AIFA.

With reports from El Financiero and Infobae