By Kylie Madry
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Brazilian planemaker Embraer sights Mexico as a main marketplace for its Super Tucano and C-390 safety airplane, the enterprise’s head claimed on Monday.
Embraer CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Francisco Gomes Neto claimed that the planemaker, the globe’s third-largest, remained in energetic talks with Mexico’s federal authorities and had really introduced a C-390 to the nation for demo journeys.
The C-390 is known as a multi-mission airplane, and takes on Lockheed’s C-130.
“We believe it can be a great solution for Mexico,” Gomes Neto knowledgeable Reuters all through a see to Mexico prematurely of inbound President Claudia Sheinbaum’s graduation.
The exec didn’t declare the variety of of every airplane it was eager to market to Mexico.
If Mexico had been to lock up an acquisition of the lighter Super Tucano airplane, which Gomes Neto highlighted for its utilization as a coaching airplane or for boundary monitoring, it will definitely enroll with quite a lot of numerous different Latin American nations tightening orders in present months.
Gomes Neto claimed that it was moreover contemplating service jet gross sales in Mexico, the globe’s third-largest marketplace for such airplane.
“We expect to grow our fleet in Mexico by 11% in the next two years,” he claimed.
Embraer locked up a $750 million order in June for 20 E2 jetliners to Mexico’s military-run airline Mexicana.
Gomes Neto shook off worries from specialists concerning the safety of the cut price, bearing in mind Mexicana’s claimed failing to repay a united state service supplier.
“We are working with Mexicana very closely, we really want this operation to be a great success to show the market how good the aircraft is,” he claimed.
The exec moreover claimed that Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena had really consulted with the corporate beforehand this yr in Brazil which “she was very positive about the future of Mexicana.”
“Embraer is looking for a win-win situation in doing business with Mexico,” he included.
(Reporting by Kylie Madry in Mexico City)
