{"id":37521,"date":"2026-08-13T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/37521\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:31:10","slug":"airbus-a220s-performance-drives-bermudairs-fleet-growth-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/37521\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus A220\u2019s Performance Drives BermudAir\u2019s Fleet Growth Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscription required\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Howard Hardee\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 12, 2026, \u00a9 Leeham News: While many airline fleet planners clamor for a stretched variant of the Airbus A220 closer to the heart of the narrowbody market, Adam Scott\u2014chief executive of BermudAir\u2014is interested in going even smaller after placing a firm order for 10 Airbus A220-300s at last month\u2019s Farnborough International Airshow.<\/p>\n<p>Scott recently told Leeham News and Analysis (LNA) that he would eventually like to operate A220-100s, the smallest aircraft in the family, on targeted \u201cthin\u201d routes in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, people have been looking to upgauge rather than downgauge, so everybody\u2019s looking for stretches; everybody\u2019s calling for the A220-500,\u201d he said. \u201cThat typically works for a lot of the routes that [airlines] would otherwise fly these aircraft on. We\u2019re also looking more at performance. We still spend a lot of time looking at the A220-100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere we\u2019re going with the -300 is very exciting, and I think it\u2019s the right aircraft for us, but we reserve our interest in also exploring longer-term what the -100 can do in markets where that may make more sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bermudair-tail-livery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51026\" class=\"wp-image-51026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bermudair-tail-livery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BermudAir has operated Embraer E-Jets since launching scheduled passenger service in 2023, but it has placed an order for 10 A220s and plans to add more before 2030. Photo credit: Bermudair\/LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>BermudAir will configure its incoming A220-300s with 135 seats\u2014likely with 12 business-class seats and 40 premium economy seats. Economy class will be arranged in a two- to three-seat setup.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier\u2019s fleet-growth plan calls for seven A220s by the end of the year, at least 10 jets by the end of 2027, and more than 20 A220s by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>BermudAir\u2019s fleet of four Embraer E-Jets will be phased out as leases expire in coming years, eventually making the carrier a single-type Airbus operator. But the carrier is not rushing to retire its Embraer aircraft, which Scott said are a \u201cstep up in terms of customer experience versus some of our competitors,\u201d while it waits for the potentially transformative A220 order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn layman\u2019s terms, the A220 is to my mind the narrowbody equivalent of what the [787] Dreamliner represents,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of a sudden, you can fly longer, more point-to-point markets, with greater efficiencies. Our markets like Bermuda have 65,000 people, and we don\u2019t need a 200-seat aircraft. We\u2019ve done really well with 70, now 96 and soon to be 135 seats as we\u2019ve matured and grown these markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscription required\u00a0 By Howard Hardee\u00a0 Aug. 12, 2026, \u00a9 Leeham News: While many airline fleet planners clamor for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[24307,7902,7837,7694,90,21581,24308,24309,1555],"class_list":["post-37521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-airbus","tag-737-max-7","tag-a220-100","tag-a220-300","tag-a220-500","tag-airbus","tag-bermudair","tag-e175","tag-e195-e2","tag-embraer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}