Sentences with phrase «turboprop dornier»

Island Air, a regional carrier serving airports on all major Hawaiian islands, has 245 employees and three turboprop planes, with 224 weekly flights between the islands of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kauai.

To Obtain a challenging position for a full time Airframe and Power Plant Technician familiar with general aviation (fixed wing) aircraft, such as but not limited to: piston engine aircraft both single and multi: turboprop aircraft both single and multi and corporate jet aircraft.

• Provided complete maintenance and repairs of various turboprop and turboshaft engines in top working order.

The maintenance technician carries out troubleshooting and repairs services, engages in schedule and unscheduled inspection of components, as well as maintains all affiliated systems on jet air craft and turboprop.

Over 3,000 flight hours in jet rotary wing and turboprop aircraft.

In 2014, Transportation Partners took delivery of ten ATR 72 - 600 turboprop aircraft and leased them to Wings and Malindo Airways.

«It was a mixture of many things,» Daniel Desjardins, general counsel and corporate secretary for Quebec - based Bombardier, says of the decision not, for now, to go ahead with the project to assemble Bombardier's Q400 turboprop planes in Russia.

«Jet fuel prices now are just under $ 4 a gallon and that's up almost double from what it was a year ago and if these prices stay high, I think you'll see a lot more airlines gravitate to orders for these new turboprop planes.

Alternatives to Flying It probably goes without saying that, turboprop or not, flying is not likely to beat the efficiencies of electrified high - speed rail or intercity bus transit any time soon.

Airlines in Trouble Over Oil Prices As we mentioned in our post on the return of turboprop aircraft, airlines have been hit incredibly hard by rising fuel costs and, in places where competition exists, by travellers switching to high speed rail.

The turboprop aircraft is making a comeback, with sales to one of the only remaining manufacturers quadrupling in 2007 and a continued upsurge expected.

As we have noted, one of the Achilles heels for the US aviation industry could be the complex mixture of greenhouse gases and precursors — carbon dioxide, water vapor, and oxides of nitrogen — injected directly into the atmosphere by every jet and turboprop in the sky.

The service flies 48 - seat ATR42 turboprop aircraft which allows its contractor, Empire Airlines, to provide service to and from the islands of Moloka'i and Lana'i.

To get to Port McNeill we had flown from Vancouver to Port Hardy via a 30 - seat, twin - turboprop plane.

Day One — Depart Adelaide Airport in an air - conditioned turboprop aircraft for Port Lincoln.

The ATR42 - 300 twin turboprop plane was carrying 44 adults, five children and five crew members but disappeared from radar over the remote region of Papua.

However the distances are greater than to other places in Costa Rica so you may want to consider a short turboprop flight to either Puerto Jiménez, Golfito or Drake Bay.

The operation of these turboprop aircraft are also in line with the company's efforts to enhance customer service by offering a wider choice of destinations and travel options to passengers as well as part of the airline's move to join the SkyTeam global alliance in March 2014 and in anticipation of 2015's ASEAN Open Sky policy.

If you need transport from San Jose to the Caribbean Coast, there are regular buses and shuttles as well as turboprop flights to Limon.

RwandAir and Bombardier Aerospace announced the delivery of a dual - class Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft, fulfilling an order placed on April...

My return flight was on a Trans - Canada Airline turboprop, and was considerably noisier, but retrieving my luggage and departing the airport was convenient.

If you need transport from San Jose to any of the Pacific Beach towns, there are regular buses to all as well as turboprop flights to most destinations.

If you need transport from San Jose to Manuel Antonio or Quepos, there are regular buses, shuttles and turboprop flights.

This turboprop aircraft takes two hours to fly the 640 kms distance (880kms by road) and flies across the Southern Alps.

Pacific Coastal will be using its proven 19 - seat turboprop aircraft, the Beechcraft 1900, to service the Vancouver - Tofino route, but has the capability to upgrade to larger 30 or 34 - seat Saab 340A or 340B aircraft should demand increase.

They also operate another 27 planes under the PAL Express brand, but with the same logo and sold through Philppine Airlines, including 15 A320 / 321 and 12 Bombardier Q300 / 400 turboprop planes.

If you need transport from San Jose or Liberia to the Guanacaste Coast or Nicoya Penisula towns, there are regular buses and shuttles as well as turboprop flights to Tamarindo, Nosara, Punta Islita and Tambor.

Phu Quoc's tiny airport can accommodate nothing larger than an ATR turboprop; four to five daily flights from Ho Chi Minh City bring in a maximum of 335 passengers.

December 19, 2016 • Employees of Pakistan International Airlines sacrificed the animal to mark the first flight of an ATR turboprop plane since the fleet was grounded following a Dec. 7 crash.

The G - 1 is a large twin turboprop with performance characteristics of contemporary production aircraft.

They use the four - engine turboprop airplane as a huge stethoscope to monitor Matthew's vital signs.

And we caught a turboprop jet out of there.

You'll spend 8 hours seated in cargo netting along the fuselage of an LC - 130 turboprop cargo plane packed with tons of equipment (from frozen food to compressed helium), struggling to hear yourself think (forget about hearing the person next to you talk).

Yet tomorrow, weather permitting (and around Antarctica, every event is conditional on the weather), I'll join some 40 other intrepid travelers aboard a not - so - luxurious military turboprop to reach McMurdo Station.

The company upgraded him to a Starship turboprop, and he thought he was building equity in a plane through his promotional work.

To make the rounds of his empire, he flies a quarter of a million miles a year, much of it in his own turboprop Vickers Viscount.

Though Monash did take a mistress when work took him away from his wife (on a three - month steamboat, not a 90 - minute QantasLink turboprop) so we suppose Barnaby and he have that in common.

Air Nippon Co. of Tokyo, a subsidiary of All Nippon Airways Co., has purchased three 56 - Dash 8 Q300 turboprop airplanes from Bombardier Inc..

It has also repeatedly said it will keep its turboprop business.

Bombardier employee working on the fuselage of a Q - 400 turboprop.

Other airplane parts currently being 3 - D printed include several elements of turboprop engines and a piece of equipment that houses temperature sensors.

It was great news because Bombardier's Q400 turboprop aircraft bested foreign competitors to win the contract.

Deluce likes to call the CS100 a «whisper - jet,» though it would be more accurate to say that it's a «mimic - jet» — one whose noise profile and fuel consumption look more like those of a turboprop.

The single - engine turboprop can't even get to Australia.

If you bought, say, a small single - engine turboprop aircraft, that would be $ 1.5 to $ 2 million.

So when the Toronto Port Authority announced its intention to make the airport self - sufficient by increasing traffic, Deluce hatched his plan: an airline that would fly fuel - efficient turboprops on well - travelled business routes, as well as to Northern Ontario destinations whose passenger demand and pricing sweet - spots he knew all too well.

But as jet engines replaced turboprops, the island airport's runway was simply too short to handle the aircraft, leaving Pearson International Airport, located a 40 - minute drive from downtown, to capture the growth in air travel.

The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people, fly up to 700 miles and have operating costs of 8 cents per seat mile, below the operating costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.

And the original agreement to fly the turboprops Porter uses now only came about after some messy political wrangling.

Its new regional carrier, Encore, began service this year with four Bombardier Q400 turboprops, and will add roughly one aircraft to its fleet every month through to 2015.