ATR urges owners to approve new aircraft By Siva Govindasamy PARIS (Reuters) - Aircraft manufacturer ATR is pushing its owners to approve plans for a new 90-seat turboprop plane to provide cut-price competition to smaller passenger jets, its chief executive said at the Paris Airshow. The company, a joint venture between Airbus parent EADS and Finmeccanica subsidiary Alenia Aermacchi, manufactures the 50-seat ATR 42-600 and the 78-seat ...
June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News