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...causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines, which have insisted that their members, not lower-paid commuter pilots, fly the jets...
...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 with Voith Sulzer PaperTechnology who travels frequently to Appleton: "This flight puts me in the heart of the papermaking industry in Wisconsin in minimal time." Given a choice, Fletcher prefers...
...regional carriers and their affiliates, it all means more profits. The Canadair Regional Jet has a sticker price of $18 million, vs. $7.5 million for an Embraer Brasilia, a popular 30-seat turboprop, but because the jet generates higher revenues, it has been profitable for Comair since its first month of operation. It has also fueled growth for Comair. The carrier's revenues have more than doubled since 1993, the year Comair started flying jets, to $564 million in fiscal 1997. Profits have risen meteorically: last year Comair posted net income of $75.4 million, an increase of 291% from...
...cold and snowy conditions. Authorities do not believe any aboard survived the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the incident. Eyewitnesses say the plane dipped while in flight, then began spiraling before hitting the ground at a very steep angle. The plane, a Embraer 120 model turboprop, appeared to be thoroughly destroyed. The flight originated in Cincinnati and was reportedly turned away from Detroit Metro, which was experiencing heavy snows, and trying to get to Toledo to land...
Last week Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin focused on an application by Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace firm that has sold weapons to Iraq, to obtain supercomputer technology from IBM. The Senate passed Kasten's amendment barring supercomputer exports to Brazil and any other country aiding Iraq. The White House opposes the amendment as too broad and considers it a restriction of the President's powers in foreign relations...