Originally Posted by
avi8orco
it can land on 32 in Boston, I was deadheading on one when the crew landed. Wasn’t full but it was at least 110 on board maybe more. Didn’t seem difficult or too aggressive stopping and they turned off at J1, that’s about 4100 feet, so I’d imagine ACK at over 6k should be no issue and EYW is almost the same length. Though T/O in EYW might be another story if carrying fuel for an alternate. The issue I could see in the cape islands are the taxiways, the 190 barely fits on some of them and the engines are over the grass, I’d imagine the gear track width of the 220 is wider.
I heard the issue with ACK and MVY (and maybe also HYA?) is the physical amount of space on the ramp; the wingspan is too big to get behind the terminal in ACK, and in MVY the tail would be too close to the taxiway. The 220 is already doing EYW to BOS, but it's usually capped around 100 passengers and still has planned tech stops all the time.