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Kingfisher takes its 17th ATR propjet
India’s fast-growing Kingfisher Airlines took delivery of its seventeenth ATR 72-500 last month.

India’s fast-growing Kingfisher Airlines took delivery of its seventeenth ATR 72-500 last month. The Bangalore-based carrier holds a firm contract for 35 of the twin turboprops, all equipped with ATR’s “Elegance” cabin.

With its light-emitting diodes and in-flight entertainment systems (see box), the new cabin is central to ATR’s strategy of achieving jet-style comfort with the lower fuel consumption of a turboprop. The IFE systems, provided by Vision Systems at a cost of about $100,000 per aircraft, will also be available on the smaller ATR 42-500 and can be retrofitted.

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