ATR Fleet Commonality

Started by tworattle, June 03, 2012, 11:08:51 PM

tworattle

Hey everyone I'm pretty new to the game and am currently building up a fleet of ATR's. I have 42's right now that are serving my routes perfectly and are turning a nice profit running 5 legs a day each. I would like to start leasing/purchasing ATR 72's so that I could start hitting higher demand routes and was curious if there is a commonality between the two models or if each one is going to count as separate groups on the commonality page. I'm just curious because the ATR-72 is basically a stretched and up-engined ATR- 42 and  I don't want to kill my promising young airline with extra maintenance costs early on.

P.S I am currently running two A320's as well so if the ATR-72 is a new group commonality wise it would be my third aircraft type.

ArcherII

The 42 and the 72 are in the same fleet type  :)

Troxartas86

As long as it's in the same fleet group (which it is in this case), you'll be fine although you will incur some additional costs from the difference in engines.

tworattle

Awesome. I was hoping that was the case since they are such similar aircraft from the same manufacturer. Thanks for the quick replies.

knutm1980

Just for future references, when you're check out a plane for fleet commonality using the search function, tick the box directly under filters, it will only return planes of your current fleet.

Alternatively, on the a/c page, 'fleet group' is the 2nd line of info.