Originally Posted by
TransWorld
Agreed. You can argue cost, fuel efficiency, and the sky is blue. You still will not dislodge the strong opinion of most PAX.
Remember the customer is always right.
I think it has been long enough that if a pleasant roomy product with amenities is offered people will forget their last flight in a prop that was noisy bumpy and for some reason 2.5 hours long flight from SFO to LAX they took in 2003.
The CRJ 200 and to the lesser extent the ERJ 145 has shown the public that a jet is not always the better option. Now if you configure the Props like a 200 then forget about it, you lost even before you started.