Hunnu Air will expand its fleet with two new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft
February 9, 2025
On 24 January 2025, Mr. Munkhjargal Purevjal, CEO of Mongolia’s Hunnu Air LLC, announced that the airline has signed a lease agreement for two Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, thereby confirming a December report that anticipated the company’s selection of at least one E195-E2.
The two new aircraft are being acquired from an undisclosed lessor and will be delivered directly from the manufacturer to Hunnu Air in April and October 2025.
The Embraer E195-E2 offers passengers exceptional comfort, with low noise levels in the passenger cabin, and with an environmental impact of 75-80 dB. The E195-E2 also emits less carbon dioxide compared to the E190 and has approximately 20% lower fuel consumption. The aircraft seats 130 passengers, representing a roughly 30% increase the number of seats while also offering a 20% reduction in cost per seat.
The airline will use the E195-E2s to expand its scheduled and charter services. Hunnu Air now operates serviced to Manzhouli and Ordos Ejin Horo in Inner Mongolia, Beijing Daxing International, and to Sanya on Hainan Island in China, as well as to Almaty International in Kazakhstan, and is planning to launch twice-weekly flights to Kobe in Japan from mid-2025.
The new aircraft will increase capacity and frequencies on exisiting routes – especially to key tourist destinations in the free trade zone of Hainan Province, Haikou and Sanya in China, as well as Phu Quoc in Vietnam. The aircraft will also open up services to new destinations, including scheduled flights from Ulaanbaatar to to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2025.
Hunnu Air was founded in 2011 and has been operating since 2013. Over time, its fleet has included two A319s (used between 2013 and 2014), as well as turboprops including the Fokker 50 and ATR 42 in its fleet.
Currently, Hunnu Air’s fleet is made-up of one inactive ATR42-500 and two first-generation ERJ190s. The first ERJ190 was leased from CDB Aviation in 2019, and the second from ACIA Aero Leasing in 2023.
