Originally Posted by
makeitra
I am needing to get from GUC-DEN and was wondering if the Dash-8’s have weight restriction problems as far as taking a jump-seater is concerned? Also, GUC is a mountainous area so specifically for you Mesa guys who operate the flight: Do the mountains put a weight restriction on the flight that would no allow a jump-seater to get on? It’s scheduled to be a full flight so just trying to figure out whether or not I need to make alternate plans.
Thanks in advance
Depends on what type of Dash 8 it is. Usually the 100 is the most restricted because of the underpowered engines. The 200 is better because it has the 300 type engines on it. For example, with Piedmont, we can fill all 50 seats in our 300 plus a jumpseater. The most we can get in our 100s with no kids is 35 ish.