Embraer 190

Remember when we all thought that maybe we could convince Dave Ulmer at the terminal to put one of their new fleet of Embraer 190's in ORH to fly shuttles to JFK? Tomorrow JetBlue will will hold a press conference introducing the new EMBRAER 190 and announce new EMBRAER 190 routes as well as new service from Boston.

The EMBRAER 190 is 100-seat aircraft and JetBlu JetBlue has firm orders for 99 with options for 100 more through 2016. The low-fare carrier currently has two EMBRAER 190s in its fleet, and is scheduled to take delivery of six additional EMBRAER 190s this year, and 18 in 2006. JetBlue's EMBRAER 190 fleet will come with the most live entertainment options of any airline. The airline already offers 36 channels of free DIRECTV(r) programming, FOX , InFlight Premium Entertainment and now all EMBRAER 190s will have more than 100 channels of live XM Satellite Radio.