Sentences with phrase «turboprop planes»

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.

«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.

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.

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 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.

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

Not exact matches

The Q400, with a backlog of 50 planes, has about 25 percent of the global market in small commercial planes and comes second to European rival ATR, the world's largest maker of turboprops.

If the bigger twin - engines and turboprops belong in the limousine class, then such practical workhorses as short takeoff and landing (STOL) planes and seaplanes must be likened to jeeps and dune buggies.

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

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).

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The airline plans to retire two 1980s - era planes and expand to four or five new ATR 72 turboprops by the end of the year.