COMMUTER & REGIONAL AIRCRAFT

• Short Haul Travel

  • Upto about 500 nm
  • 15 to 75 passengers

• Twin-Turboprop [Turbofan] Configuration

  • Wing mounted engines

• High Seat-Mile costs

• Excellent for testing new, untried markets

• Configuration + Flight Profile (Trajectory)

  • Optimum Flight Profile = Saw Tooth

• Competition by other modes

  • Rail, Bus, Automobile

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