Originally Posted by What

You are correct about less seats making it harder to spread cost but you also need to think about communities who can't support a 70+ seat aircraft, some of these communities help fill up the NB and WB aircraft. That's the knock on the Q300, that it has a much higher cost per seat compared to the -400. If Bombardier would do what ATR did with the -600 and allow the company to derate the engines per the operation then it could be beneficial but it costs a big penny to push a 50 seater 320 Knts.