The Embraer ERJ-135 LR is a VIP charter conversion of the ERJ-135 regional airliner, one of a family of regional jets that established Embraer as a global aerospace force in the 1990s. Fitted with Rolls-Royce AE 3007A1 engines and Honeywell Primus 1000 avionics, the ERJ-135 LR carries up to 12 VIP passengers in a 40-foot cabin of 8'5" width, airliner-class dimensions delivering standing room and a genuine sense of space. Its 1,850 nm range serves regional VIP and corporate shuttle missions effectively.
Here is the detail crews love: This VIP shuttle is built on Embraer's regional-airliner airframe, giving it airline-grade systems, a stand-up aisle and a robustness that shrugs off the high-cycle life that tires smaller jets. It is the kind of heritage that quietly reassures a charter client.
Airport flexibility is a real advantage of the Embraer ERJ-135 LR: it slips into tight, close-in runways that larger jets must overfly, turning a long transfer into a short one. With slots easier to secure at private terminals, departures stay on your clock rather than an airline's. Few things make a charter feel more private than watching the aircraft taxi straight to the FBO door.
At roughly 440 knots, about Mach 0.77 the Embraer ERJ-135 LR is quick for its class, and regular charter clients notice it first, because a faster jet quietly rewrites what fits into a single day. The same pace shortens exposure to turbulence and keeps schedules honest into congested airspace. For anyone whose time carries a real cost, the aircraft pays for itself.
On value the Embraer ERJ-135 LR makes a strong case, turning modest operating costs into a lower hourly rate than clients expect for this much aircraft. Empty-leg and off-peak availability can drop the price further when the diary allows. Pound for pound, the type is hard to argue with on a charter budget.
Step aboard and the Embraer ERJ-135 LR answers the question every charter client really asks, which is whether the cabin works: up to 12 guests, 375 cubic feet of luggage and seating you can reconfigure for a board meeting, a family or a couple who want the aircraft to themselves. The interior measuring 8 ft 5 in wide by 40 ft 0 in long stays quiet at altitude because the pressurisation holds a low cabin altitude, so the type leaves you fresher than a comparable airline leg. That is the difference private jet charter is really bought for.
Behind the comfort sits real engineering: the Embraer ERJ-135 LR runs 2× Rolls-Royce AE 3007A1 (7,057 lbf each), a combination trusted across thousands of charter operations to keep departures punctual. Well-understood systems make it forgiving to maintain and quick to turn around between legs. Dependability, in the end, is the luxury clients feel most on it.
The Embraer ERJ-135 LR, weighed fairly, including the caveats:
The Embraer ERJ-135 LR cabin is generous for light jet work, though it will not pretend to the walk-about width of a heavy jet. For most trips that is the right trade, and where a client truly needs a stateroom we point them up a class.
Push it to the edge of its range with a full cabin and, like any aircraft, the Embraer ERJ-135 LR trims its numbers, so we plan payload and fuel honestly rather than to the brochure.
As alternatives to the Embraer ERJ-135 LR, it is worth weighing the Embraer ERJ-145 LR and the Embraer Lineage 1000, both able aircraft in the same bracket. Broadly the Embraer ERJ-145 LR tends to charter for a little less, while the Embraer ERJ-135 LR keeps the more modern flight deck, so the right pick comes down to your exact route, party and budget, which our advisors are glad to lay out side by side.
In short, few aircraft do short-haul and regional charter as gracefully as the Embraer ERJ-135 LR, and where it is the right tool we place it on fully vetted, certified partners at a fixed all-in price, with an answer back inside 30 minutes.
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