At the headquarters of Bombardier Aerospace Regional Aircrafts, a part of the Bombardier Aerospace group, Nacional's reporter was received by the vice president of the department responsible for market analysis and marketing, Barry MacKinnon, who presented the company in numbers, focusing in particular on the Q400, the best selling turboprop aircraft in the world, which made its success thanks to the fact that it was introduced in 2000, just ahead of the significant hikes in fuel prices, and because it is the quietest turboprop aircraft. Bombardier's experts managed to reduce propeller noise levels down to that felt when flying jet airplanes. When it comes to the aircraft from the Q series, where Q stands for "quiet", 932 aircraft had been ordered to date, of which 825 have been delivered for 112 buyers.

The advantage of the Q400 on short flights in comparison to aircraft of the same capacity but using jet propulsion, is that its annual costs are up to 34 percent less, or US0,000 per month. 7 passengers less on one flight in comparison to a jet aircraft of the same seating capacity is sufficient to make it profitable, and there can be as many as 2,000 passengers less a month with the company still turning a profit. Since all operators will soon have to implement standards of environmental acceptability, the Q400 brings companies further savings, as less noise means fewer fees at airports, fuel costs are reduced, and there will be reduced fees because of a reduction in the emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere, Barry Mackinnon told us.

In response to a question about the competition among turboprop aircraft on the global market, he responded, "If we compare the sales of the competing ATR-42 and 72 aircraft with sales of the Dash, the Q series, as of 31 October 2007, the ratio was 53 percent to 47 percent in favour of Bombardier. We were very pleasantly surprised by the news last year that Croatia Airlines would purchase our Q400 aircraft, especially as that is the first company in the world that has switched from an ATR fleet to Bombardier and because your country is in south-eastern Europe, a future target market for us."