3/10/2023

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Operator
Conference Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the audio conference from Embraer's financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022 and full year of 2022. Thank you for standing by. We remind that Ivi's results will be discussed on Ivi's teleconference. Additionally, the numbers in this presentation contain no GAAP financial information, to facilitate investors to reconcile EVE's financial information in GAAP standards to Embraer's IFRS. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. Later, we'll conduct a question and answer section and instructions to participate will be given at that time. Should you require assistance during the conference, please use the Q&A button on the platform. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded and webcasted at ri.embraer.com.br. This conference call includes forelooking statements or statements about events or circumstances which have not occurred. Embraer has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends affecting the business and its future financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including among other things general economic conditions, political and business conditions in Brazil and in other markets where the company is present. The words believes, may, will, estimates, continues, anticipates, intends, expects and similar words are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Embraers undertakes no obligations to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or other factors. In light of those risks and uncertainties, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed on this conference call might not occur. The company actual results could differ substantially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. It's important to mention that all numbers are presented in US dollar, as it is our functional currency. Participants on today's conference call are Francisco Gomes Neto, President and CEO, Antonio Carlos Garcia, Chief Financial Officer, Leonardo Shinohara, Director of Investor Relations. And in the Q&A session, will also participate Aram Meyer, Commercial Aviation CEO, Michael Amalfitano, Executive Aviation CEO, and Johan Bordet, Services and Support CEO. I would like now to turn the conference over to Francisco, who will proceed with the first remarks. Please, go ahead, sir.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our fourth quarter and 2022 full year results conference call. 2022 will be remembered for overcoming several challenges worldwide. such as the Ukraine war, the rising of global inflation, and supply chain constraints. Despite that, we managed the strategic plan to deliver our goals, which was only possible due to teamwork, focus, and discipline. Another main factor in succeeding our plan was the continued focus on business efficiency. which demanded several mitigation measures throughout the year. In 2022, aircraft delivery grew 12.7% and reached the mark of 159 commercial and executive aircraft. We also increased revenue to 4.5 billion. Adjusted EBIT and EBITDA margins exceeded the guidance given to the market, reaching 6% and 10%. Moreover, the free cash flow generation grew well above estimates. The total backlog returned to the pre-pandemic level, reaching 17.5 billion. Disactive aviation presented an outstanding performance in 2022, And in commercial aviation, we had several campaigns underway. Later on, I will talk more about the 2022 highlights of each business unit. On the next slide, we will see some important steps in our journey towards a more sustainable aviation. The Energia program was consolidated with two concept aircraft models. for 19 to 30 seats with hybrid electric and hydrogen electric propulsion. Together with Pratt & Whitney, we have successfully tested an E195E2 using 100% sustainable aviation fuel. As part of the reducing emission goals in our operations, we anticipate the use of 100% renewable energy in Brazil by 2024. In addition, we signed an agreement with Raizin from the Shell and Cousin Group to assess the production of sustainable aviation fuels in Brazil, which may contribute to lower emissions across the sector. In the social pillar, we are increasing the hiring of underrepresented groups in our entry-level programs, as well as the number of women in senior leadership as part of our goals. Furthermore, we were honored to receive the Great Place to Work certification in several countries where we operate. For us, it is an important recognition to celebrate. On the next slide, you'll see some highlights of last year's business units. In commercial aviation, we delivered 57 aircraft, 19% above the previous year. The delivery of the first E195-E2 jets to Canadian port airlines marked the beginning of the E2 operation in North America. Porter has also placed a new order for 20 jets, in addition to the existing 30 firm orders. Another important sale was the 20 E-2 jets to Azura, a U.S. leasing company. In addition, the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority granted certification for our E-190E2, opening doors for the E-2 family in the relevant Chinese market. Business Aviation presented excellent results for another year, with a 102 aircraft delivery, a strong demand in the entire product portfolio, and a sustainable sales level. The Finland 300 became the world's best-selling light jet for the 11th consecutive year. In defense, the geopolitical scenario continues to influence several countries to invest in renewing their armed forces capabilities. The selection of the Su-390 Millennium as the only aircraft that meets the requirements of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands was our year's highlight, with a 5 C-390 acquisition forecast. Moreover, we announced the partnership with L3Harris to develop an agile tanker, a tactical aerial refueling option to meet the United States Air Force needs. Our service and support business continues to evolve positively. In commercial aviation, growth was based on pool program contract renewals, as well as new clients. And in business aviation, new clients in the executive care program. The service and support backlog grew 8% compared to 2021. Finally, in 2022, we took an important step to consolidate our operations in the urban air mobility segment, a great business opportunity in the coming years. We completed the EV spin-off by listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange, ending the year with potential orders for over 2,700 vehicles valued at 8.3 billion. Now, I hand it over to Antonio to give further details on the financial results in Return at the End. Thank you.

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Antonio Carlos Garcia
Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Francisco, and good morning, everyone. 2022 was a great year for us. The entire Embraer One team worked very hard, all the way to the last minute of December, to successfully overcome many external challenges we faced during the year. As a result, I'm proud to share our 2022 financial results with you today. deliveries, we increased the number of aircrafts delivered by 12.7% compared with 2021, even with significant supply chain constraints. It's important to note that Q4 deliveries were concentrated around 50% of all deliveries in 2022, with an abnormal seasonality. Embraer delivered eight jets in the fourth quarter, of which 30 commercial jets and 50 executive jets. Thereof, 33 light jets and 17 midsize jets. In 2022, we produced 61 commercial jets, but delivered 57 with 4 jets postponed to January 2023. Therefore, we slightly missed the guidance. For executive aviation, we delivered 102 jets, reaching the guidance. Deliveries are gaining traction, and we are optimistic on our 2023 deliveries guidance. Firm order backlog ended Q4 2022 at $17.5 billion. $500 million more versus Q4 2021. This is one of the highest quarter backlog since the beginning of the pandemic, or 800 million more versus Q40 2019, driven by solid sales activities in executive aviation and service and support. Net revenues rated around $2 billion in the quarter, 44% of the whole year revenue. Approximately 700 billion compared to Q421, most driven by higher revenues and commercial executives and services and support, partially offset by lower revenues in defense and security. Revenues reached 4.5 billion in the year. Approximately 343 million more compared to 2021. Or a growth of 8%, delivering the guidance with revenue well balanced by business unit. Moving to adjust EBITDA and EBITDA, but before that I want to report on gross margin. Q422 reported consolidated gross margin of 19.1%, higher than 15% report in Q421 due to volume mix 2%, efficiency 1.6%, and one-time actions 0.4%. In Q422, adjusted EBIT were 166 billion yielding just a bit the margin of 80.3% or 400 basis points above Q4 2021, even with some negative impacts from provision and SG&E expenses. In Q422, adjusted EBITDA were 228 million, yielding adjusted EBITDA margin of 11.5% or 323 basis points above Q421. For the year, in 2022, reported consolidated gross margin of 20.1%, higher than 15.7% report in 2021, due to volume increase 1%, enterprise efficiency 2%, one-time effects 1.4%. In 2022, adjusted EBIT were 270 million, yielding adjusted EBIT margin of 6% or 200 basis points above 2021, even with some negative impacts from provisions and SG&A minus 2% and surpassing our guidance. In 2022, adjusted EBITDA were 459 million, yielding adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.1%, or 147 basis points above 2021, and also surpassing our guidance. SEG&A and investments. SEG&A rose 18%, driven by higher sales campaign and market activities compared to 2021, a year still impacted by COVID, as well commercial concessions and inflation. Investments. In 2022, Embraer invested a total of $176 million in product development and research, mainly in product development, for example, E2 family, P2F, executive aviation, and turboprop projects. We invested $66 million in CAPEX, mainly for service and support expansion. Free cash flow without ETH in Q4 2022 was positive in $584 million, due to a strong concentration of delivery during this quarter. Free cash flow without ETH in 2022 was positive in $540 million, due to outstanding results and sales performance from executive aviation and very strict control over working capital. Adjusted net results in Q4 2022 was a profit of 43 million, or 2.2% of adjusted net profit margin. Adjusted net results in 2022 was a profit of 39 million, or 0.8% of adjusted net profit margin. Trending positive from enterprise efficiency and less interest expenses. Liquidity. In the top left of the chart, we finish the quarter with a net debt without EVE of $950 million or $457 million less than 2021, in line with our liability management strategy. We reduced gross debt around 800 to 24 million dollars compared to 2021, with a significant reduction net financial expenses on cash flow, 35 million savings in 2022. It's important to highlight that our net debt A BTDA ratio decreased from 3.9 times in 2021 to 2.1 times in 2022. This is a 1.8 times decline in just one year. The company ended 2022 with a strong liquidity of 3.1 billion, including revolving credit facilities, due to the outstanding free cash flow and working capital management. On the debt side, we reprofiled 300 million of debts from 2024 to 2027, and the maturity of our debts give us a comfortable situation on amortization until 2024. We continue to work on increasing duration and improving the financial metrics. At the same time, monitoring for a marked window to reprofile our 2025 and future maturities. Rating, it's important to highlight that Moods affirmed in February 2023 Embraer's rating at BA2 and raised the outlook for all ratings from negative to stable. Standard reports upgrade in February 2023 from BB to BB+, on solid cash flow. We are one notch below the investment grade level and hope to get back the IG level soon. Moving to 2023 guidance, I will now guide you through our outlook for 2023, starting with deliveries. For commercial aviation, we forecast 65 to 70 aircrafts still limited by supply chain constraints, an increase of at least 14% than delivered in 2022. For executive aviation, we forecast 120 to 130 jets, an increase of at least 18% more jets than delivered in 2022. For revenues, between 5.2 to 5.7 billion, at least 700 million increase or double-digit growth of around 15% compared to what was achieved in 2022. For EBIT, adjusted EBIT margin of 6.4% to 7.4%. EBIT is the margin from 10% to 11%. In regards to free cash flow, with the substantial revenue growth, we do have some challenges on working capital. Therefore, free cash flow guidance is 150 million or better. As the year progresses, we will keep you updated accordingly, the same we did in the last years. With that, I conclude my presentation and hand it back to Francisco for his final remarks. Thank you very much.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Thank you, Antonio. In my closing remarks, I'd like to comment on this and following years. First of all, the 2022 financial results show that we are making consistent progress in our journey of shifting the company towards a sustainable growth. As we have said, since 2020, the 2021 and 2022 years would be dedicated to the business recovery after two simultaneous crises, the pandemic and the end of the Boeing deal. And the focus will be on growth from 2023. We can now state we have fulfilled what was promised. The business turnaround was completed in 2022, and we are ready to start a new growth phase, capturing the company's full potential in the coming years. We still face supply chain challenges this year, but we are optimistic about the company's future in terms of revenue growth and profitability. Regarding revenue growth, several ongoing sales campaigns are progressing very well in commercial, business aviation, and defense area. The aircraft slots on the production line for deliveries in 2023 and 2024 are practically filled for commercial aviation and executive jets. The service area will continue to grow generating better margins, and we are confident in the improvement of defensive results. The organizational changes announced at the beginning of the year with the creation of new vice-presidencies for global procurement and strategy and innovation also play a relevant role in accelerating growth. We will give even more focus to the procurement area directly impacting efficiency and value generation. In the case of innovation, we will strengthen the integration of these projects in our long-term strategy, opening new growth opportunities. For this reason, adding our recognized execution capacity to ongoing sales campaigns and innovation projects, we are very confident in Embraer's sustainable growth. And finally, my thanks to the Embraer team, which overcame all of last year's challenges with outstanding commitment and dedication, always focusing on quality and safety. And thanks for the support of our customers and partners and our shareholders for their trust in our company.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. We'll now start the question and answer section. We'll ask who are interested in making questions. At any time press star 9 in your phone or press raise hand on Zoom's platform. When your name is announced press star 6 on your phone or activate your microphone on Zoom's platform. To give everyone a chance to participate, we request to ask just one question per call. Wait, while we pull more questions. Our first question comes from Ronald Epstein from Bank of America. Please, Mr. Ronald, your microphone is open.

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Ronald Epstein
Bank of America Analyst

Yes, can you hear me okay? Yes, we can, Ron. Go ahead. Great, great. Thank you. So maybe just a couple quick questions. How should we think about Embraer in the Chinese market? Typically, right, aircraft don't get certified in a market unless deliveries are imminent. So how should we think about that?

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Since we have Arian here with us, Arian, can you jump in and answer this Ron's question?

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Absolutely, Francisco. Thank you, Ron, for the question. I think the great news in 2022 was that the 190E2 was certified. We're currently in the process to add the 195E2 to that. We strongly believe that the 190 and the 195 combination in China is a very strong addition to the local portfolio of the ARJ21, which falls slightly below our segment. and the 919, which is the narrow-body that the Chinese industry with Comac will bring to the market. It's a gap where there are no Chinese products. The 190 has an incredible performance and is very useful for the higher level airports in the Tibetan Plateau. And the 195 E2 obviously is a great complement to the narrowbody aircraft from China. We believe a great vehicle to help the Chinese connect the many airports that are being created in China. that need a very efficient aircraft. So we're very bullish about the Chinese markets. And we're working with airlines and our team. We have a team in Beijing at the moment to see if we can campaigns over the line.

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Ronald Epstein
Bank of America Analyst

Got it. And if I could follow on to that question, given all the tension right now between the US and China and China, kind of what that means for Boeing. Does that open an opportunity for you guys? I mean, I don't know how you can answer that, but if you could give it a shot.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Well, obviously with our segment, we are in a lower segment of narrow bodies than Boeing. But we do believe that with a Brazilian product, we add a very interesting alternative to the Chinese airlines. So I think... the moment is key. China wants to really connect the country and the domestic market. And I think getting an aircraft that can complement either a MAX or a NEO, and obviously on the short term, it will be more NEOs. The 195E2 is able to deliver um, uh, economics that are very close on a per seat basis to an A320. So, um, we, we believe that independent of what's happening to Boeing, it is a, it is a great addition to that market.

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Ronald Epstein
Bank of America Analyst

Great. Thank you. And then maybe just one last one on, on commercial. How should we think about new product development in commercial, right? I mean, the turbo prop was halted if that's right. Um, So where to now? I mean, Embraer has always been very innovative when it comes to new products. And how should we think about that?

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Yeah, that's a great question, Ron. The turboprop is on a slowdown at the moment. We have not disbanded the project, if you will, but we need to have more in-depth conversations with the system supply. So that's definitely a product where we believe there could be a market. On the slightly longer term, the Energia platform is really something that we're spending a lot of time on. We had our first airline advisory board at the end of 2022 to really understand what the feasibility is of smaller aircraft with a much more sustainable footprint than the bigger aircraft. A lot of focus on the long-term sustainability agenda and the roadmap I had for commercial aviation. We believe the E2 has a great footprint in terms of CO2. We're working on getting that aircraft also 100% SAF. The turboprop will still be existing technology, but more efficient than anything out there, more seats and also 100% SAF capable. And then below that, the Energia platform, which is, of course, further out. There's a lot of work to be done. It's still concepts, but we're looking very closely at that part of the market as well. And maybe using the opportunity, Ron, while I have the microphone, there was a comment on the introduction about 20 aircraft order by U.S. Lessor. That deal was announced early 2022, but was part of the 2021 backlog. So we had 60 aircraft in our order book. It did include the 20 porters, but the 20 aircraft from the lease company were in the 2021 order book, just to be precise. Thank you. Great, thank you very much.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Our next question comes from Luis Jafeto from Wolf Research. Please, Mr. Luis, your microphone is open.

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Luis Jafeto
Wolf Research Analyst

Thank you very much. Can you guys hear me?

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Yes, we can, Luis.

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Luis Jafeto
Wolf Research Analyst

Maybe just to follow up on Ron's question, I guess, you know, you mentioned your active campaign. So any additional call you can give? I think you guys are expecting a stronger book to bill in 2022 than what you kind of wound up with. So just how do you see this year playing out?

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Want me to continue on that one, Francisco?

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Yes, go ahead. And maybe Michael can compliment you as well from the executive side.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Yeah. Now, very quickly, obviously, we can't comment on individual campaigns. What I can say is that, as Francisco noted on his opening speech, is that we see a lot of appetite for the segments. I think... Pre-crisis, we were in the uncertainty with the Boeing deal. During the crisis, obviously, the market was very slow. But now post-crisis, we see a different market ahead. We see a lot of interest from airlines in being risk averse, looking at different ways to do business. So there's a lot of appetite in the smaller segment. You may have seen the announcement of an LOI announcement. from Scoot in Asia. That's one of the information that's out there. That's great news for the E2 program. We really see new airlines interested, but we also see a golden moment ahead of us for current EJET operators looking at replacement aircraft. So bullish about the future, but hopefully we can share more information later.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Michael, do you want to add something from your side?

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Michael Amalfitano
Executive Aviation CEO

Thank you so much, Francisco. And thank you again for the question, Luis. Market in executive aviation is extremely strong, very robust. We have booked a bill in excess of two to one. We have market interest from all of our customers across all four product sectors. Most specifically, obviously, with the Phenom 300E and the Prater 600 capturing significant market share growth. as we look ahead into that backlog. We are currently selling positions in first and second quarter 2025 across the sector with the aircraft for 23 and 24 completely sold out. The market remains very robust in terms of demand. Obviously we are managing all the characteristics that you heard from Francisco and Antonio regarding our challenges on the supply side. And we're looking forward to maintain pricing We are looking forward to a continued robust earnings cash generation for the corporation.

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Luis Jafeto
Wolf Research Analyst

All right, great. And maybe just to kind of follow up on what you guys just said there, this is for both of you. Was engine availability an issue for you as you look to the 23 guidance for any of the deliveries?

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Yeah. For commercial aviation, engines is certainly part of the supply chain challenges ahead of us, but it is included in our guide.

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Michael Amalfitano
Executive Aviation CEO

Yeah, and Luis, on our end, obviously we're facing the same supply challenges that the entire industry is facing across aerospace. We don't believe that we're going to be adversely impacted any more or less than anyone else in the sector. But however, we have phenomenal relationships engaged with our supply chain, especially with the ship set providers, so that we don't see any major disruptions for 23 or beyond as we continue to manage through those relationships.

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Luis Jafeto
Wolf Research Analyst

Thank you very much.

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Ronald Epstein
Bank of America Analyst

Very good.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Our next question comes via phone and the number ends in 6273. Sir, you may press star 6 to enable your microphone and identify yourself with name and company before asking your question. So the telephone number that ends in 6073, you can start your microphone pressing star six.

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Noah Papiner
Analyst

Hey, guys. Can you hear me? It's Noah Papiner.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Yes, go ahead.

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Noah Papiner
Analyst

Okay. Okay, great. Okay. Do you expect book to bill above one or below one in commercial and executive in 2023? Thank you.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Ari and Michael, you can answer this as well.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Yeah, I'll... What I'll say about the book to be over 2023 is that on the US markets, on the E-Jet 175 E1, we still see some challenges on the pilot shortage. So I think that market will be less strong than what we've seen in the previous number of years. On the E2, I just elaborated on that. We're very bullish about the opportunities. And we hope to have a good performance there on 2023. On average, I'd say around book to bill or better. Hopefully that's where we end up, but it's a bit early to say.

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Michael Amalfitano
Executive Aviation CEO

Yes, no, hey, Michael here. Yeah, just to follow up on the executive aviation side, as I mentioned, in 2022, our book to bill was consistently in excess of two to one. In 2023, obviously, we'll see some slight reduction as the marketplace continues to calm to more normal levels. However, our demand for our products across the sector remains very strong. So we anticipate that we will be at the high end of any historical book to bill averages for the industry.

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Noah Papiner
Analyst

Thanks, guys. On the pilot shortage piece at commercial, do you view that as cyclical, temporary? There's a pilot shortage now, but we'll get more pilots. Maybe you get some scope relief at some point. Or should we be now thinking of that as structural to your business where it's really hard to get scope change? And because there's a pilot shortage across the board, formerly regional pilots are all moving to mainline. and then the carriers order large narrow body Boeing and Airbus aircraft and just kind of move on from your segment of the market and therefore it's a little bit more locked in.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Yeah, thank you. I'll try to be short on that answer, but it's a complex area. But what I would say is that a change in scope has proven to be very difficult over the last couple of years. So we don't really expect that change to happen. What is important is the connectivity in the United States. There is a lot of airports that will struggle to handle the bigger narrowbodies. We do see a continuing interest from the majors in the segment. So we do believe there is a cyclical trend here. It will not be solved in the short term. It will probably take time. or two more years to to re-stabilize. But we do believe that there's a lot of focus on getting that getting that issue resolved. We're seeing both the majors and the regionals spending money and time on increasing the amount of pilots to be trained and what we also see is that a lot of pilots are still caught up in the training system because of the COVID scenario. So We're still in the tunnel when it comes to pilot training, but we do believe that we will come out and come to a more stabilized scenario in the period ahead of us.

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Noah Papiner
Analyst

Okay, great. Is it possible to quantify, just lastly, expenses in 22 that do not repeat in 23, whether that's related to turboprop investment or... legal or otherwise.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Antonio, maybe you can get this one. You are on mute. Still on mute. He's asking about the expenses related to the turboprop. I think Antonio is having a problem with the audio. Maybe you can come with this answer, right?

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

On the turboprop, obviously, we've put the program... I'm back. I'm back. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Antonio.

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Antonio Carlos Garcia
Chief Financial Officer

I would say around, if I take the... The turboprop and less legal costs, I would say something like 1% ABAT margin compared to 2022, which is more or less give us some good visibility, more upside than downside trend for the ABAT margin.

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Noah Papiner
Analyst

Okay, great. Okay, thanks so much.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Thank you. Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Our next question comes via phone from the number ended with 1339 and you have to press star 6 to activate your microphone, sir.

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Unidentified Participant
Phone Participant

Hello, can you hear me?

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Yes, yes, we can.

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Unidentified Participant
Phone Participant

Okay, thank you so much. Yes, hello guys. So maybe a follow-up on pricing. So at one point, the issue was a lot of your commercial deliveries were 175s to major US airlines with very tight pricing. Comment, if you could, on what's left to go of 175s, what's the pricing there, and also the pricing on the E-2. And then in the biz jet, in the executive sector, I think everybody has been talking about stronger pricing. But More recently, some of the U.S. producers have been talking about inflation catching up so that pricing just offsets inflation. Do you still have any net price gains to go in the business jet area? Thank you.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

I'll start on the commercial aviation side. On the 175E1, we have really tried to keep the pricing discipline over the last couple of years, and I think we've been fairly successful on that. There are, of course, some deals from a few years ago that are still causing some pricing pressure on the 175 E1. But let's not forget that the price increase in the market needs to find its way into the pricing of aircraft as well. We're doing our best to keep that to a minimum, but that needs to be recovered as well. Of course, we want to be very sensitive on the pricing. I think we're successful there. But also, we are very aware that we need to bring E2 into the market and build a market share. We believe we have a chance to do that now. So it's finding that balance going forward.

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Michael Amalfitano
Executive Aviation CEO

And then on the executive aviation side of the business, we have raised prices on all four product segments. This has been provided to the market for 2023. It's important to note that our goal remains to be delivering the ultimate experience in business aviation. In order to do that, you have to also deliver superior value to your customers. So we're going to continue to push price as long as we can continue to maintain market share and growth to service the demand and customer commitments that we have in the industry.

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Unidentified Participant
Phone Participant

Great. And if I might ask one follow-up to Ram's question about China, You know, you mentioned that the E190 and 195 are a good fit versus, you know, the products that China is buying. But what about the A220? It would look like, is that a direct competitor? And to what extent is that a major threat to your sales in China?

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

At the moment, when the A220 gets certified, for sure we will compete in maybe a share of the market. But the E2 and the A220 are slightly different aircraft in the market. And I believe, as I described earlier, with the combination of the hot and high performance of the 190, the cost performance of the 195 V2, which is really stellar, but also the gap to the narrowbodies. We see that the 195 respects a bigger gap to the narrowbody segments, which allows the airlines to play the value difference between those aircrafts even more with the E2 family than with the A220 family. We believe for China, it's a very attractive combination of aircraft. But of course, there will always be market where we will see competition. But we're confident that the E2 has a good place there.

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Unidentified Participant
Phone Participant

Terrific. Thank you very much.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

You're welcome. Thanks, Guy.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Our next question comes from Victor Mizuzaki from Bradesco BBI. For Mr. Victor, your microphone is open.

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Victor Mizuzaki
Bradesco BBI Analyst

Hi, congrats for the 4Q numbers. I have one question here. In the conference call in Portuguese, you gave some details about the discussions in India. Apparently, you mentioned about a potential order of like a 4028 KC390. So my question here is, when do you expect this, I mean, let's say, to be confirmed, if this is something that can happen this year? And you can also comment if there is something else related to commercial aviation. Thank you.

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Victor, thanks for the question. Francisco speaking. I mean, it's tough to predict, but the information we have is that this process can last a couple of years.

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Victor Mizuzaki
Bradesco BBI Analyst

Okay, and Francisco, this is only about defense or maybe if, I mean, you have a firm, let's say, if the negotiation evolves, that maybe this can also be extended to commercial aviation?

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Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO

Well, this process, the RFE, I mean, request for information RFI, is basically for the C-390s from 40 to 80 units. But we have been in contact with India for other opportunities. Maybe Aryan can talk a little bit more about the opportunities we have in India. And yes, as we will need a partnership there for the military aircraft, this might be combined with commercial as well. Aryan, feel free to add some more information here. You are on mute, Aryan.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Yeah, that's not very helpful. Thank you, Francisco. Yes, we see, well, like China, we see a great application for the 190 and 195, also in India. The previous EJET family struggled to get to the right cost level, vis-a-vis the much bigger narrowbodies. We're always talking to the engine customers. We believe that there's a great market to complement also that of narrowbodies, and

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Operator
Conference Operator

yeah if there's a way to combine it with partnership then that could be a potential combination but it will be a somewhat longer term outcome okay thank you our next question comes from george milberg from josh milberg from morgan stanley please mr josh your microphone's open thank you very much good morning everyone and i appreciate

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Josh Milberg
Morgan Stanley Analyst

Very good morning to you guys and appreciate your comments. You guys have covered a lot of ground, but I had a few additional follow-ups on the commercial side and the demand outlook there. And one is just, you mentioned the number of campaigns underway, and I wanted to ask if you could give a rough idea of the total number of potential aircraft sales contemplated in those campaigns and And then with respect to China, I wanted to ask you guys if you could comment on how broad that opportunity is in terms of the number of airlines for which the E2 could make sense. And then just finally, on the E1 side, I know you have that pilot issue in the US, but in the past, you've talked about the replacement opportunity being some 500 aircraft in the next 10 years as a function of aircraft aging. And I just wanted to see if you're still seeing the market that way.

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Aram Meyer
Commercial Aviation CEO

Thank you, Josh. That's a triple layer question. So let me start with the E2 campaigns. We're having... A big number of discussions, some are more advanced, some are less advanced. But I think if you add it up, you're talking about several triple digit number of E2. So there's a good number of opportunities out there that we're talking about at the moment. On China, it's a little bit early. Let's not forget that the aircraft was only certified at the end of next year and China is just opening up. But as I said, we have a big local team in China that is talking to all the airlines. So we hopefully can specify that a little bit sooner. But I think it's too early today. On the E1s, that opportunity that you're talking about, about 500 aircraft, we still see that ahead of us. Obviously, the airlines will be a little bit reluctant at the moment to add aircraft if they can't bring the pilots in. But we believe as soon as they see that going to a better place, then that opportunity will come back. So we believe the 175E1 short term will have to wait for the opportunities. But longer term, we definitely believe there's a lot of regional capacity to be replaced or added.

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Josh Milberg
Morgan Stanley Analyst

Okay, I appreciate that, great caller. Have a nice day, everyone. Thank you, Josh.

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Operator
Conference Operator

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