Originally Posted by
DAL4EVER
I agree 100%. I've often wondered why that plane has never really caught on in the US. The turboprop aversion factor that was alive in the mid 90s is gone now. It is a highly comfortable airplane that just happens to be highly efficient as well.
I wonder how its working out for Continental. They have 15 of them running out of EWR. They're fast, efficient and look fantastic and I'm sure they can pull up to a jetbridge which evidently to some pasengers is the only difference between a jet and a prop.
From what I've heard Horizon ran a "race" of sorts between a Q400 and a CRJ700 on like a typical route and the 400 might have won, or barely lost, I think it was close. Kind of like Ditka vs. God in a footrace, who wins? God, but its close.