NetJets places order for 250 Embraer Praetor 500 business jets

NetJets expects to have the primary Praetor 500s delivered in 2025. The Praetor can accommodate 7 to 9 passengers and has a flight vary of just about 6,200 kilometers. The plane is barely longer than the Phenom 300/E, which might carry 6 to 10 passengers. The utmost flight vary with 5 passengers is 3,700 kilometers. Embraer builds the plane in Melbourne, Florida.

NetJets already has a sizeable fleet of Phenom 300 and 300 E’s and first ordered this sort in 2010. After the supply of the a hundredth gadget in 2021, the corporate positioned an order for one more 100 items.

Based on Government Vice President Doug Henneberry, NetJets wished so as to add an additional kind of medium-sized enterprise jet to the fleet and subsequently selected the Praetor 500, which inserts in the identical section because the Cessna Latitude and XLS within the fleet. Above which can be the Bombardier Challenger 350, whereas the massive jet class consists of the Challenger 650 and the Dassault Falcon 2000X. NetJets’ largest govt jet is the Bombardier World 6000. In November, NetJets positioned an order for twenty-four World 8000s.

The corporate, based in 1964, operates its personal flights, however the core of its actions consists of charters, leases and, above all, shared possession of the plane, with which prospects often journey. NetJets positioned a tentative order final 12 months for 250 ‘flying taxis’ from Lilium, including a brand new market to its portfolio.