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43Inches
Not sure where you are getting the goss on the EJets being good for spare availability and reliability on high utilization. Maybe if you buy a few more for use as spare parts as well. Alliance had only recently planned to 'part out' 12 or so of it's E190s, reducing that to 7 due to aircraft shortages of late. Says something if until recently it was better selling your fleet as spares rather than ongoing assets.
Everything in context: Alliance's model is built on having a whole stack of spares available, which is what they had huge success with in buying the Fokkers from Austrian years ago. The ones that are being broken up are some of the oldest that were operated by JetBlue, and what they have found is that they are paying more because they have more green time on the engines and other LLPs than expected. That has changed the value equation, and the high demand (and replacing the Fokkers) has pushed more into service before they get chopped up.
It's worth noting that Alliance doesn't take part in Embraer's spare parts pooling program.
Alas, back to the Bonza.