Originally Posted by
The Chow
This came from a friend of mine who is a GA pilot. From a pilots perspective he thought the ATR was an interesting airplane.
From a platinum members eyes though, here are his thoughts:
1) the airplanes seats suck. They're uncomfortable to begin with and they don't recline.
2) the environmental contol stinks. The ground air can barely keep up with a warm evening.
3) the plane is loud. It didn't quiet down until the props were pulled back to 77% which took almost an hour.
So this is probably why the ATR's are going away. If and what they are replaced with should be interesting.
I can attest to that!! In fact, they were pulled off the HOU-DFW route because platinum and whatever else members would refuse to fly AA if it was served by the ATR.