Dec 10 (Reuters) - Latin American airline holding Abra

Group, which controls Brazil's Gol and Colombia's

Avianca, has considered adding smaller aircraft to its fleet but

will not order planes solely to boost capacity, CEO Adrian

Neuhauser said on Wednesday.

* Gol has often been linked to a potential order of

Brazilian

planemaker Embraer's ( EMBJ ) regional jets.

* The company currently flies only Boeing 737 planes.

* Rival LATAM Airlines earlier this year placed a

firm

order for 24 E195-E2 jets, which it said would allow it to add

up to 30 new destinations in Brazil.

* "We're not in a rush to add an additional fleet type just

to add

capacity," Neuhauser told reporters.

* "If we add the additional fleet type, it needs to be to

service

markets that we otherwise couldn't service, either physically or

economically," he added.

AIRBUS DELIVERIES

* Avianca, which operates Airbus narrowbodies and

Boeing ( BA )

widebodies, had more than 70% of its fleet affected by an A320

recall last month.

* It concluded a required software change and resumed normal

operations on December 2.

* Neuhauser said the company does not forecast major

long-term

impacts from a separate fuselage panel defect that has been

hurting A320 deliveries.

* "These are very short-term contingency issues," he said,

adding

that a plane expected to be delivered next week was currently

under review.

* "We're in close talks with Airbus. But we're talking about

some

aircraft that could be delayed - in the optimistic case, by a

couple of weeks; in the pessimistic, by a couple of months," he

said.

* Avianca, which recently added a route to the Amazon city

of

Belem, said it expects to further expand its connectivity with

Brazil in 2026.