Word: atre
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...regional jets have changed the economics of commuter flights and, by extension, the markets that can be served. In smaller markets, most commuting passengers have no choice but to fly on turboprops, anything from the 19-seat Beech 1900 to the 70-seat ATR-72. But the new minijets can fly at higher altitudes and faster speeds than turboprops. Comair had five daily flights from Cincinnati to Appleton, Wis., a paper-industry center, on 30-seat Embraer turboprops. It now has six flights a day to Appleton, five of which use 50-seat jets. Says Michael Fletcher, a service engineer...
...tough, respected administrator, and his supporters believe he is being sacrificed on the altar of public relations. But others claim that he could be unyielding and slow to acknowledge problems. For instance, it took two fatal crashes before he had the agency investigate wing-deicing difficulties on turboprop commuter ATR-42 planes--a trouble spot the NTSB flagged after the first crash...
...ATR TURBOPROP...
...conspicuous number of crashes have involved commuter airlines, including the October wreck of an American Eagle ATR-72 in Indiana that killed all 68 people on board. One reason for the increased number of commuter crashes is simply growth in traffic. Regional airlines that tend to operate smaller, prop-driven planes carried 50 million passengers in 1993, up from 15 million...
After the crash of the American Eagle ATR-72, the Federal Aviation Administration barred ATR model planes from flying in icy weather. That forced the carrier to move other planes more suitable to cold conditions to northern cities. But late last week, American Eagle canceled all its flights at Chicago's busy O'Hare International Airport after a pilots' union complained that the replacement fleet's crews had not adequately been trained to fly during cold weather...