Originally Posted by
N927EV
Pax are idiots. They see props and automatically think it's ancient. I overheard one once saying they our ATR-72-212A (deliveried in 98) was more than likely built in the 60s.
When I worked as an agent at NWA passengers would often come up to me and say they wanted to be rebooked from the Mesaba turboprop flight to the NWA jet flight all the time because the jet was "newer" technology an safer.
The Saab had just been delivered to Mesaba and still had the new airplane smell.....the DC9-10 or -30 was built in 1964-68 depending on which boneyard it had been pulled out of.....
Go figure...