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Top Ten industry Changing Airliners |
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Articles
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Written by Courtney Miller
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
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#4 - Canadair CRJ
 There have been several attempts at building a passenger jet with less than 100 seats, but economics largely proved these attempts unsuccessful. The BAe-146, Fokker 28, and DC-9-10 found small amounts of success, but it wasn’t until Canadair stretched their Challenger business jet to the CRJ that regional jets took off. In 1992 the CRJ entered production, and by 2000 had drastically changed the look of airline route structures. No longer were regional airlines confined to 300 mile routes or less in small turboprops, the regional jets allowed flights for 50 passengers up to 1,200 miles.
Further stretched into the CRJ-700 and CRJ-900, the CRJ connected cities to multiple hubs, and increased the non-stop service to countless markets. Embraer entered their version of the regional jet into service in 1996, but it was the CRJ that paved the way for Regional Jet success, mostly in the U.S.
From economical small aircraft, to economical big aircraft, the number 3 aircraft is unmistakable.
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