kiwipilot02 interesting to hear that about MCB the atr is very reliable, like all aircraft it goes thru stages where we have a run of breakdowns. Things were going great in sept, just the last week or two things have been happening. Saying the igniters are unreliable is a bit rich they have two and won't go for ever. I wouldn't of thought that was a huge unreliability problem. dispatch is in the high 90's it carries a good load 66pax full bags still able to carry fuel for 2hour sector and a decent alt, 270-280tas burning around 650-750kgs hr.
Haven't flown the dash but I wouldn't think that the dash in any version gets close to the running cost of the atr72-500, with all things considered.