{"id":253925,"date":"2016-10-01T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253925"},"modified":"2016-10-01T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T15:00:57","slug":"starbow-launches-97-seater-avro-rj-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253925","title":{"rendered":"Starbow launches 97-seater Avro RJ Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous airline, Starbow, has acquired a 97-seater Avro RJ Jet to augment its fleet as it looks to expand its operations in the West African sub-region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG-20161001-WA0005.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63680\" src=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG-20161001-WA0005.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20161001-WA0005\" width=\"1216\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Avro RJ plane has four engines and can make steep approaches and short take-offs. This makes it safer in the event of an engine being lost.<\/p>\n<p>The 97-seater Avro RJ Jet comes to add to the fleet of aircraft of Starbow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG-20161001-WA0008.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63681\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63681\" src=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG-20161001-WA0008.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20161001-WA0008\" width=\"1216\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company operates 46 departures a week with the largest market share in the domestic market.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Business News has gathered the airline is expecting another \u00a097-seater Avro RJ Jet to begin its regional operations starting with Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>The plane which also allows for higher overall thrust while still running each engine at lower power, will reduce noise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG-20161001-WA0010-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63682\" src=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG-20161001-WA0010-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20161001-WA0010\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The maiden inaugural flight was on Friday September 30, to Tamale and back to Accra with full flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Norvan Acqua-Hayford\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous airline, Starbow, has acquired a 97-seater Avro RJ Jet to augment its fleet as it looks to expand its operations in the West African sub-region. The Avro RJ plane has four engines and can make steep approaches and short take-offs. This makes it safer in the event of an engine being lost. The 97-seater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":253927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,1166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}