Originally Posted by rickair7777

DAL's experiment was very short-lived, involved some Dash-8's (not Q400) in the Northeast.

Mesa won the bid, and then acquired planes out of a junkyard in Russia or someplace and tried to restore them to 121 standards. Problem was they didn't have TCAS or GPWS or something, and the mfg no longer made what they needed. After delays they finally started operations but the performance was so bad DL pulled the plug in very short order.