Profile: Regional Jets and Their Emerging Roles in the U.S. Aviation Market

摘要

This profile, which reflects industry developments through Spring 1998, is211u001edivided into three sections: the domestic market, manufacturers, and operators. A 211u001ereview of manufacturers reveals that regional jets, and certainly jets with the 211u001ecapacity of regional jets, are not a new phenomenon in the United States. 211u001eAircraft such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, the Fokker F-28 and the British 211u001eAerospace BAC 1-11 all played a large role in transforming the short-to-medium-211u001ehaul U.S. aviation marketplace, just as the RJ is impacting todays regional 211u001emarket. As for the operators of RJs, the dominance of the modern domestic hub-and-211u001espoke system lends itself to a review of regional airlines grouped by their 211u001eprimary mainline partner.