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Sustainable Growth
S u st a in ab l e G r o w t h

With a growing portfolio of turboprop powered

regional transport aircraft, ATR is eyeing

a period of sustainable growth

By Atul Chandra

egional Transport Aircraft (RTA) specialist ATR is eyeing undisclosed customers and three ATR 42-600s
sustainable growth on the back of what it views as were ordered by two undisclosed customers.
recovery signs for the market for low-emission and ATR plans to add total orders for at least 40
R versatile regional aircraft. The airframer is on track to aircraft this year. This will better its perfor-
achieve delivery of 40+ ATR aircraft in 2023, despite continued mance in 2022, when it accumulated orders
supply chain tensions. ATR expects the global turboprop market for 26 new aircraft and delivered 25 new
to grow by around 2,450 aircraft by 2041, as per its ‘Turboprop regional transports to its customers.
market forecast 2022-2041.’
ATR also remains committed to industry
The Asia Pacific region (excluding China) will be the region where efforts on decarbonisation. ATR has commit-
ATR expects the highest turboprop demand in the coming 20 ted to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions
years. Aircraft replacement will be a primary driver of demand in alignment with the Paris agreement, to con-
over the next two decades, accounting for 1,500 new aircraft and tribute to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
according to ATR, in future, the aviation industry will naturally According to the airframer, if turboprops were
favour low-carbon emitting aircraft, such as turboprops. flown instead of regional jets on routes up
to 920km in Europe, the annual reduction in
At the recently concluded 54th International Paris Air Show, carbon emissions would be equivalent to the
held at Le Bourget in June, ATR announced orders for 22 new carbon sequestered by a forest the size of the
aircraft, plus options for two more. Mandarin Airlines, Berjaya Balearic Islands. ATR 72-600’s, equipped with
Air and Azul placed orders for six, two and three ATR 72-600’s new PW127XT engines, emit 45 percent less
respectively, while eight ATR 72-600s were ordered by three CO2 than similar-size regional jets.

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