Public acceptance and use of scheduled helicopter airlines have shown a dramatic increase over the past several years -- but airlines’ profit has not. This is due to extremely high costs, particularly passenger service and maintenance.This paper discusses possible economies in passenger service -- with use of computers -- and in maintenance -- cost sharing with manufacturers -- to equalize the profits of helicopter airlines with those of fixed-wing carriers.


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    Title :

    Cost and Operational Problems of a Scheduled Helicopter Airline


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    National Air Transportation Meeting ; 1968



    Publication date :

    1968-04-29




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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