Author Jeff Watson at the bottom of the stairs with the VH-ZHA delivery crew. (below) Virgin Blue’s Jodi Boyce closes the door for the E-Jet’s departure from the Embraer factory. (Paul Sadler)
Private E-Jet
Bringing Home Belle-issimo Blue
Some people in the airline business quite disparagingly call Virgin Blue’s new Embraer 170s and 190s The Jungle Jets – a studied insult which implies that only Boeing and Airbus can build airliners. A little below the belt and even further from reality.
Embraer is a Brazilian success story like the bossa nova, churrasco and The Girl From Ipanema.
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