Even as the world reels under a recessionary threat, Brazilian business aircraft manufacturer Embraer is positive on growing its business jet market in India.
Even as the world reels under a recessionary threat, Brazilian business aircraft manufacturer Embraer is positive on growing its business jet market in India.
The company is encouraged with the new enquiries that it is receiving, despite the current economic crisis.
Manfred Baudzus, regional sales director, executive jets, Embraer Asia Pacific, believes the company has a lot of business to do in India though it received fewer enquiries this year compared to the previous years.
“Since few years, we have been getting good business in India. We’ll be glad to hold that position for another 6-12 months.”
Moreover, in a time when many executive and business jet orders are been cancelled globally, Embraer has not witnessed any cancellation in India. However, one of its aircraft deliveries has been deferred by a year on customer request.
The company has close to 30 executive jet orders, which will be delivered starting
August 2009. These include Embraer’s range of Legacy, Phenom 100 and 300, and the luxurious, ultra-large Lineage 1000 jets.
At present, there are 13 Embraer airplanes flying in the Indian skies. With its major deliveries in India starting this year, Embraer has tied up with maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company, Indamer Company Pvt Ltd, for operating its authorised service centres in India.
Rajeev Wadhwa, managing director of European Aviation Holding Co, said Indamer has 12 sites in India and currently services 50 aircrafts, which is expected to touch 100 in the next two years.
Indamer is the wholly owned subsidiary of European Aviation.
Although most of Embraer planes in India are new and would not require heavy maintenance, Baudzus feels the service presence will help in garnering new customers.
Earlier, Embraer airplanes had to be flown to Singapore for MRO services.
“Indian customers appreciate newer technologies and designs and are among the first ones to order a new variant,” Baudzus added.
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