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Exhibit
10.12(i)

CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT

REQUESTED
PURSUANT TO RULE 406

 

AMENDMENT NUMBER 8 TO AMENDED AND

RESTATED PURCHASE
AGREEMENT GCT-025/98

 

 

This Amendment Number 8 to Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement
GCT-025/98, dated as of February 16, 2004 (“Amendment No. 8”) relates to the
Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement GCT-025/98 (the “Purchase Agreement”)
between Embraer—Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A. (“Embraer”) and Republic
Airways Holdings Inc. (“Buyer”) dated April 19, 2002 as amended from time to
time (collectively referred to herein as “Agreement”). This Amendment No. 8 is
between Embraer and Buyer, collectively referred to herein as the “Parties”.

 

This Amendment No. 8 sets forth additional agreements between Embraer
and Buyer relative to Buyer’s exercise of its option to purchase fifteen (15)
Option Delta EMB-145 Aircraft as well as changes in the Option Aircraft
delivery schedule as described in Article 24 and Attachment A-3 of the Purchase
Agreement.

 

Except as otherwise provided for herein all terms of the Purchase
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.  All capitalized terms used in this Amendment No. 8, which are not
defined herein shall have the meaning given in the Purchase Agreement. In the
event of any conflict between this Amendment No. 8 and the Purchase Agreement
the terms, conditions and provisions of this Amendment No. 8 shall control.

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Parties’ agreements above mentioned,
the Parties have now agreed to amend the Purchase Agreement as provided for
below.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration which is hereby
acknowledged Embraer and Buyer hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Subject: Article 2.a shall be deleted and replaced with the
following:

a. Upon the terms and
conditions contained in this Agreement, Embraer shall sell and Buyer shall
purchase and take delivery of:

•                                42 Delta Aircraft: Fifteen (15) EMB-135 firm Aircraft (“Firm
EMB-135 Delta Aircraft”) and twenty-seven (27) EMB-145 firm Aircraft (“Firm
EMB-145 Delta Aircraft”) plus

•                                3 Special Aircraft: three (3) EMB-145 firm Aircraft (“Special
Aircraft”).

 

CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THIS EXHIBIT HAVE
BEEN OMITTED PURSUANT TO A REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT UNDER RULE 406 OF
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933.  THE OMITTED
MATERIALS HAVE BEEN FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION.

 

In addition, if Buyer so
elects, Buyer shall purchase and take delivery of

•                                34 Other Aircraft: thirty-four (34) other option EMB-145
Aircraft (“Other Option EMB-145 Aircraft”), and

Each Aircraft shall be
purchased as indicated in the table provided below in Article 5 or Article 24,
as applicable.

2.  
Delivery Schedule

Article 5.a of the
Purchase Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the following:

Aircraft: Subject to payment in accordance with
Article 4 and the provisions of Articles 4, 7 and 9, the Aircraft shall be
offered for delivery by Embraer to Buyer, by means of a notice, for inspection,
acceptance and subsequent delivery in F.A.F. (Fly Away Factory) condition, at São
José dos Campos, State of São Paulo, Brazil.

 

 

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  Aircraft Delivery Number per Model

  	
   

  	
  Aircraft Delivery

  Number per Operator

  	
   

  	
  Delivery Month

  
	
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Note:
The schedule above excludes Aircraft already delivered.

 

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3. Option Aircraft

The
Option Aircraft  delivery
schedule of Article 24 shall be deleted and replaced with the following:

 

Option Aircraft

	
  Option

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4. Payment

 

* Confidential

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The provisions of Article 4.c of the Purchase Agreement shall also
apply to the purchase of the [ * ] Aircraft, as well as the provisions set
forth in Articles 1 through 34 of the Purchase Agreement and its Attachments,
mutatis mutandis, as applicable, except as otherwise specifically set forth in
Article 24 of the Purchase Agreement and hereunder.

 

5. Miscellaneous

All other provisions of
the Agreement which have not been specifically amended or modified by this
Amendment No. 8 shall remain valid in full force and effect without any change.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, EMBRAER and BUYER, by their duly authorized
officers, have entered into and executed this Amendment No. 8 to Amended and
Restated Purchase Agreement to be effective as of the date first written above.

 

 

	
  Embraer — Empresa Brasileira
  de Aeronáutica S.A.

  	
  Republic Airways Holdings Inc.

  
	
  By

  	
  /s/ Satoshi Yokota

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
  /s/ Bryan Bedford

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
  Satoshi Yokota 

  	
  Name:

  	
  Bryan Bedford 

  
	
  Title:

  	
  Executive Vice President Development and Industry

  	
  Title:

  	
  President & CEO

  
	
  By

  	
  /s/ Flávio Rimoli

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
  Flávio Rimoli 

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Title:

  	
  Sr. Vice President Airline Market

  	
   

  	
   

  

 

 

 

	
  Date:

  	
   

  	
  Date:

  	
   

  	
  March 3, 2004

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Place:

  	
   

  	
  Place:

  	
   

  	
  Indianapolis, IN

  

 

 

WITNESSES:

 

 

	
  Witness:

  	
   

  	
  /s/ Fernando
  Bueno

  	
   

  	
  Witness:

  	
   

  	
  /s/ Lars-Erik
  Arnell

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
   

  	
  Fernando Bueno

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  	
  Lars-Erik Arnell

  

 

 

5Exhibit 10.13(e)

 

CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT

REQUESTED
PURSUANT TO RULE 406

 

AMENDMENT NUMBER 5 TO AMENDED

AND RESTATED LETTER AGREEMENT
GCT-026/98

 

This
Amendment Number 5 to Amended and Restated Letter Agreement GCT-026/98, dated
as of April 30, 2003 (“Amendment No. 5”) relates to the Amended and Restated
Letter Agreement GCT-026/98 (as amended from time to time, the “Letter
Agreement”) between Embraer - Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A.
(“Embraer”) and Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (“Buyer”) dated April 19, 2002,
which concerns the Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement GCT-025/98 (as
amended from time to time, the “Purchase Agreement”;  the Purchase Agreement and the Letter Agreement collectively
referred to herein as the “Agreement”). This Amendment No. 5 is between Embraer
and Buyer, collectively referred to herein as the “Parties”.

 

This Amendment No. 5 sets forth further agreements between Embraer and
Buyer relative to  [ * ]  additional aircraft.

 

This Amendment No. 5 constitutes an amendment and modification of the
Letter Agreement.  All terms defined in
the Agreement and not defined herein shall have the meaning given in the
Agreement when used herein, and in case of any conflict between this Amendment
No. 5 and the Agreement, the terms of this Amendment No. 5 shall control.

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Parties’ agreements as described above,
the Parties have agreed to modify the Letter Agreement as provided below;

 

NOW,
THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, Embraer and Buyer do hereby agree as follows:

 

1.             Additional Aircraft  [ * ]   Chautauqua Airlines, Inc., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Buyer (“Chautauqua”) purchased  [ * ] 
(the “Additional Aircraft”).   [
* ]

 

[ * ]

 

2.             Miscellaneous:  All other
provisions of the Agreement, which have not been specifically amended or
modified by this Amendment No. 5, shall remain valid in full force and effect
without any change.

 

 

CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THIS EXHIBIT HAVE BEEN
OMITTED PURSUANT TO A REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT UNDER RULE 406 OF THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933.  THE OMITTED
MATERIALS HAVE BEEN FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION.

 

*. Confidential

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Embraer and Buyer, by
their duly authorized officers, have entered into and executed this
Amendment No. 5 to be effective as of the date first written above.

 

	
  EMBRAER – Empresa Brasileira
  de 

  Aeronáutica S.A.

  	
  Republic Airways Holdings Inc.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  By

  	
  /s/ Satoshi Yokota

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
  /s/ Bryan K. Bedford

  
	
  Name:

  	
  Satoshi Yokota

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  Bryan K. Bedford

  
	
  Title:

  	
  Executive Vice President

  Development and Industry

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  President & CEO

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  By

  	
  /s/ José Luis Molina

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:

  	
  José Luis Molina

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Title:

  	
  Director of Contracts Airline Market

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Date:   July 23, 2003

  	
  Date:  July 23, 2003

  
	
  Place:  Sao José dos Campos,
  SP

  	
  Place:

  
										

 

	
  Witness: 

  	
   /s/ Juliette O. Zambelli

  	
   

  	
  Witness: 

  	
  /s/
  Lars-Erik Arnell

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Name:  Juliette O. Zambelli

  	
  Name: Larks-Erik Arnell

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