Continuous motor problems grounded over half of KLM cityhopper's E195-E2s, according to KLM Royal Dutch Carriers (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol), forcing it to modify its mid-year schedule.
"These modifications will apply to flights scheduled to depart in the future, enabling customers to be rebooked onto other flights far in advance, if necessary. KLM Cityhopper is attempting to find a solution to these problems, which do not affect flight safety, by speaking with Embraer and the motor manufacturer Pratt and Whitney "said the Dutch transporter.
Nearby avionics news site Luchtvaartnieuws.nl said the issue had incited President Marjan Rintel to visit Brazil to talk about with the issues with Embraer.
The ch-flight armadas progressed module shows that KLM cityhopper works fifteen E195-E2s and has a further 11 on firm request from the producer. Up until this point, the carrier has just required one this year (in January), with the excess fourteen conveyed in 2021 and 2022. At present, just seven airplanes are dynamic, while the excess eight are away, some for almost a half year since December 2022, ch-flying investigation of Flightradar24 Promotions B information shows.
The Dutch transporter expressed that to limit the effect of the groundings, it has since chosen to broaden the leases of a portion of its E190s of which KLM cityhopper presently works thirty close by seventeen E175s. The aircraft likewise wet-leases in extra limit from German Aviation routes (ZQ, Cologne/Bonn). The arrangement conceals to five E190s, albeit up to this point, just two have been sent into administration with KLM. The airplane will be based out of Düsseldorf, Stuttgart Manfred Rommel, Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH, Aalborg, and Frankfurt Global. German Aviation routes said that it would proceed with ACMI procedure for KLM past the ongoing summer plan.
