American Airlines Inc has signed a firm order for 15 E175 jets (in a 76-seat configuration) from Brazil-based Embraer.

The contract is valued at $705 million, and deliveries will take place in 2020. This means that American Airlines has ordered a total of 104 E175 jets from Embraer since 2013.

Charlie Hillis, vice-president at Embraer Commercial Aviation, said: “This new order from American Airlines continues to show the value placed on our best-selling E175 aircraft.

We are fully committed to providing fleet solutions that have a positive bottom-line impact, and our E175 leads the charge, with over 80% of the North American market for 76-seat jets.”

Including this new contract, Embraer has sold more than 435 E175 aircraft to airlines in North America since January 2013.

It is the world’s leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats and has 100 customers world-wide operating the ERJ and E-Jet families of aircraft.