Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
In case you hadn't noticed, pax hate all little airplanes, and their definition of "little" is anything smaller than a 747. Considering the "customer" of a turboprop operator is the mainline, it doesn't really matter what the pax wants. If a TP can do the job cheaper, that is probably what the pax is gonna get.
Incidentally, you got that exactly backwards; the Regional Carriers are the customer of Mainline Carriers. Thats why the paint jobs on the airplanes keep changing every couple of years...
