Originally Posted by
gordon field
VIking were trying to purchase the Dash 8 100 and start building them again as they see a demand for that size of aircraft but just having bought the CL415 line and got rid of all of their Sales Representatives around the world they will be hard pushed to sell them. It's no good building them if you don't have someone to sell them. Do that have the money to keep investing?
Here in Philippines there are two mainstream turboprop operators, Air Philippines/PAL Express with Q400's and Cebu Air with ATR72's.
The Q400 simply cannot compete with the ATR on short field performance, and there are plenty of short fields around these parts, Cebu Air have been leaving Air Philippines so far behind that Air Philippines have now gone and got themselves some Q300's to take on the opposition with.
So there is something to be said for the older generations of modern day aircraft!