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Old 8th Nov 2018, 23:15
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It makes sense for Bombardier to concentrate on jets and let a turboprop specialist such as Viking have the Q400.
Turboprops are a niche market at the lower end of the aviation pecking order and the customer base has little in common with that for their regional and business jets. Viking has done a very good job with the DHC6-400 when you consider that it was essentially a dead duck when they took it over.
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