Brazil's Embraer proposes regional jets for India

A growing appetite among Indian carriers to serve regional routes makes the country a potentially big market for 250 regional jets with a capacity of up to 120 seats, Brazil's aircraft maker Embraer.
In India, around 250 low-to-medium-density routes remain unused, as they are not profitable to run with narrow-bodied aircraft. Plus, in the non-metros sector, 133 routes have less than one frequency a day, said Brazil-based Embraer.
'This doesn't provide adequate frequency to passengers. No wonder other forms of transport are used such as first-class rail with fares of air travel,' said Alex Glock, Embraer's managing director for Asia Pacific.
'With the Indian economy growing and growing rather fast, air services to the so-called secondary cities need to be more frequent - there have to be comprehensive daily services,' Glock told IANS in an interview.
At present, out of some 400 aircraft for scheduled commercial operations in India, 261 are narrow-bodied planes and only 20 are regional jets.
04/07/10 IANS/Sify.com

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