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Bangkok Airways orders four ATR72s
February 9th 2018
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Thai regional carrier, Bangkok Airways, placed a top-up order for four additional ATR72-600s in Singapore, valued at US$100 million.
Bangkok Airways already operates a fleet of 15 ATRs – nine 72-600s and six 72-500s. These will be “progressively replaced with the introduction of the new ATR -600s”, the OEM said.
Deliveries of the four additional turboprops, configured with 70 seats, will take place between October 2018 and March 2019.
Bangkok Airways’ Senior Vice President Technical, Christophe Clarenc, said: “Since the introduction of our very first ATR back in 1994 we have built up a solid and fruitful partnership that has substantially contributed to providing air services all over the country, thus developing business and tourism. The ATRs have proven, for years, to be the right aircraft to create new routes and efficiently expanding regional networks.”
Separately, Berjaya Hotels & Resorts will acquire two pre-owned ATR 42-500 aircraft for its new services between Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport and the Malaysian island of Redang where the hotel group has two resorts.
Berjaya Hotels & Resorts CEO, Hanley Chew, said: “We chose the ATR 42 because it is the right size aircraft for our needs and it can take off and land on short runways. The Redang Island airport runway is only 1,100 metres long, so the ATR 42’s capabilities on short runways are very important. The ATR 42 was also selected because this aircraft type is very well supported in Malaysia and the wider Asia Pacific in terms of spare parts, maintenance support and training programs.”
