It services small airliners and features a very spartan, utilitarian layout.

It handles small airliners; the terminal area has space for 12 jets and 6 small aircraft and supports 24-hour operations.

McDonnell had previously decided that it would specialize in smaller airliners and forgo building larger planes.

In January 1985 the aviation administration formally proposed a rule that would require voice recorders on newly manufactured small airliners.

It is civilian and accommodates small airliners.

Logan Airport has been trying since the early 1970's to build a relatively short runway, 5,000 feet, for small airliners.

Aimed at the export market, this plane marked the first of Embraer's highly successful small airliners.

They were superficially attractive as a small twin-engine airliner, and Airspeed soon offered a conversion kit.

But as ticket prices have fallen, so has the agency's available capital, while demands on the system have mounted because of many new small airliners.

These smaller airliners are generally used for medium-distance flights with fewer passengers than their wide-body counterparts.