The regional airline business is tough the world over. It faces scale-driven challenges – smaller planes, shorter routes, and higher costs. But it also operates in a space about seeing a sea change in technology—the worst of times, and yet…
On September 15th a picture emerged of Prime’s new ATR freighter. The story has stayed under the radar so far, especially since the key players have been keeping things under wraps. The pictured aircraft is a 2009 vintage ATR72-500, previously…
The US airline industry faces a hurdle found nowhere else, a Scope Clause that limits regional airlines to protect pilots at the Big Three Network airlines, American, Delta, and United. While this limit is seen as a sort of tyranny…
Yesterday an ATR carried passengers in the US again. Silver Airways yesterday launched its regularly scheduled flights aboard its new ATR -600 series. The first flight departed Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 10:40 a.m. and arrived at Key West International…
Turboprop manufacturer ATR stabilized its turnover in 2018, booking a result of $1.8bln identical to the previous year. However, sales and deliveries were below the record-level of 2017, the Franco-Italian OEM reported on January 31. 2017 had been an outstanding…
It has been a long time since ATR made a sale in the USA. But today they got great news. Fort-Lauderdale, Florida Silver Airways announced an intention to purchase up to 50 ATR42-600s (20 firm) valued at a $1.1…