Flybe remains confident in Q400
19.11.07
Flybe said it has no misgivings over the Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft, which has suffered a series of problems with landing gear over the last 2 months. Scandinavian airline SAS suffered 3 similar landing incidents, the latest in Denmark late last month, and has stopped using the plane.
However Flybe, already the biggest operator of the 78-seater plane and with more on order, remains confident in it. Jim French, the the airline's chairman, said SAS's problems had not made him rethink a £920m order for more of the planes, due for delivery by September 2009, which will leave it with 60 Q400s.
He said: 'I am very confident that there is not an issue with the Q400. The third incident was totally unconnected to the previous two and points towards a maintenance problem. Bombardier insists there is no problem with the aircraft.'
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