Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
Not sure what a Q300 burns but we used to cruise the Q400 at 1150 a side and that would give you about 330 TAS IIRC. I'd have to imagine a Q300 is not much less than that and significantly slower. Horizon Q400's hold 76 people on top of it so there's no doubt that Alaska is making loads of money off these things.
Yes a Q300 burns that on take off. At cruise at about 260 TAS we burn around 700 a side.
ATR decided to not make there 600 series fast like the q400. They felt there plane was for 1-1.5 segments and the extra fuel wasn't worth it.