First few pics available on A.net of David Needleman’s latest venture, Azul Brazillian Airlines. Here isa link to the one of the first landing of their first E195!
Don’t know about anyone else, but I quite like the livery. Think the tail design is great!:)
Also note the registration, N288JB, could this be a dig at his former airline JetBlue at all or not?
By: cloud_9 - 28th September 2008 at 23:53
Ah ok, thanks for that info Future Pilot, I didnt know that the aircraft itself had actually come from JetBlue…:o
By: Future Pilot - 28th September 2008 at 11:21
Great livery that, and the answer to your question regarding the reg is here…
Batch of JetBlue E-190s headed for Brazil’s Azul
By Mary KirbyUS low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways today revealed plans to offload six Embraer 190s by the end of the first quarter 2009.
The carrier has reached an agreement to lease two E-190s to Brazilian start-up Azul, which is spearheaded by JetBlue founder David Neeleman.
One E-190 has already been delivered to Azul “and one is soon to be delivered by the end of 2008”, said JetBlue CFO Ed Barnes this morning at the Calyon Securities Airline Conference.
Additionally, JetBlue intends to sell four future E-190 deliveries to Jetscape in the first quarter of 2009. Jetscape will subsequently lease these four aircraft to Azul, says Barnes.
“It was the gameplan coming into 2009 to continue to slow our growth. We wanted to do that through deferrals,” says Barnes, noting, however, that the agreement with Azul “was helpful”. He assures that JetBlue is “very pleased” with the performance of its E-190s.
To date, JetBlue has deferred delivery of over 100 aircraft, and announced the sale of 18 Airbus A320s. The company’s 2009 capacity plan calls for four net E-190s and one net A320.
Azul also has 36 E-195s on order with Embraer, with options for 20 and purchase rights for a further 20.
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September 28, 2008 at 5:20 am