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Abbas Ali
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PIA to Buy Six Engines for ATR Aircraft

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According to Channel 92, PIA is going to buy six Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127 series turboprop engines for ATR aircraft.

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Re: PIA to Buy Six Engines for ATR Aircraft

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PIA really goes through its engines.

Even with the A310 fleet one of the main problems became the lack of spares and lack of engines for the fleet to keep flying.

Six engines for the all the nine ATR fleet or just the four active ATR42s?? Maybe these engines will help bring back the fifth ATR42 grounded for the past 18 months
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Re: PIA to Buy Six Engines for ATR Aircraft

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As a standard airline practice, 10 percent of on wing engine population is kept as spare. That should be max of 2-3 spare engines for a fleet of 11 ATRs, six spare engines seems a bit strange.