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The Embraer E195-E2 can fly up to 4,010 nautical miles (7,427 km) as a ferry flight with no payload. With a full load of passengers and cargo, the range drops to approximately 3,010 nm (5,575 km). At its cruise speed of 450 kt, that's about 8h 55m of non-stop flying at ferry weight, or 6h 41m fully loaded.
Source: Embraer Orders & Deliveries, as of Dec 2025
Range shown at max payload (full passenger load), with average wind conditions
The E195-E2 is the most fuel-efficient commercial aircraft per seat in its size category - Embraer claims a 25% advantage over the first-generation E195, and independent analysis largely confirms it. The secret is the Pratt & Whitney PW1900G geared turbofan, the same family of engines powering the A220 and A320neo, scaled for the E2's smaller airframe. A new composite wing with a higher aspect ratio than the first-generation E-Jets, combined with the GTF's efficiency, produces fuel burn figures that make the aircraft competitive with aircraft of significantly larger cabin cross-section.
Porter Airlines made the E195-E2 the centerpiece of its transformation from a regional Toronto Island carrier to a genuine mainline competitor. By ordering 50 E195-E2s and configuring them with premium economy and business class sections, Porter began competing with Air Canada and WestJet on Canadian mainline routes - and extended into the US market, using the aircraft's range for cross-border flying where the scope clause exemptions apply to a Canadian carrier. It's an unusual competitive positioning: a former commuter airline using a highly efficient small narrowbody to challenge established carriers on their home turf.
KLM Cityhopper uses it on thin European routes in place of its first-generation Embraer E190s, and Binter Canarias flies it from Gran Canaria to mainland Europe on sectors of more than 3,000 km. The E2 represents Embraer's most credible answer to the A220 challenge: a different size, similar efficiency credentials, and a path for regional operators to grow into mainline operations without fleet type changes.
The type's range record came on a delivery flight. On 4 October 2025 Airlink's third E195-E2, ZS-LKA, flew nonstop from Embraer's factory at São José dos Campos to Johannesburg - 3,996 nm in 8 hours 19 minutes, the longest E2 flight since the family entered service in 2018. That is a third beyond Embraer's 3,000 nm full-passenger figure, made possible by a near-empty aircraft, reserves planned specifically for the flight, and an average ground speed of about 480 kt that points to a strong tailwind across the South Atlantic.
