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Air Cote d’Ivoire and Embraer officials celebrate the E175 order at Dubai Airshow.
DUBAI—Air Cote d’Ivoire is buying four Embraer 175s and Swiss carrier Helvetic Airway is taking a top-up order of three E195-E2s, the Brazilian airframer announced on the first day of Dubai Airshow.
Both orders include additional purchase rights, with potentially up to eight more E175s for the West African airline and five more for Helvetic.
Air Cote d’Ivoire has a current fleet of eight Airbus A320-family narrowbodies, two twin-aisle A330neos and four De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 turboprops. The E175s will replace the turboprops, Air Cote d’Ivoire CEO Laurent Loukou told Aviation Week Nov. 17. The aircraft is particularly suitable for thin routes, he added.
Air Cote d’Ivoire will be used on both domestic and regional routes after deliveries begin in the first half of 2027. They will be delivered in a two-class, 76-seat layout.
The airline’s decision was “another great example of right-sizing,” Embraer Commercial Aviation President and CEO Arjan Meijer said. “People always talk about the E175 going into the USA,” where it has been widely adopted as the largest available aircraft to comply with scope clause limits, “but we sell it around the world.”
Helvetic Airways has a fleet of 22 E190s and E195s, split between E1 and E2 variants of each model. It will start to receive its three new aircraft from 2026 onward.
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