I had 2 pharm reps yesterday tell me they bought tickets BUF to PHL and are on a dash 8 (USair) at 915am, or they could switch to a A320 at 10am or so. They said $150 change fee to get the later flgight. They asked me my opinion!

Also, I dont know who you know, but people I am associated with are not so stupid not to know the difference between a prop and a jet, and a 50 seat jet and a 150 seat jet!

My little Saab is still pretty full, but it is either fly with us, drive or ride da bus :eek:

The morning after the crash we took a full boat to PHL outta BUF...the gate agents said the first 2 dash flight went almost empty....everyone was trying to rebook to jet service.......I saw it for myself

(Sorry about the liar comment, I was just fooling around, but I don't know you, I didn't have to say it).

Back to the topic, you say passengers want to rebook from a regional jet to a mainline jet... I'm saying most passengers don't really care wether its a mainline jet or an RJ, all most passengers care about is that its not a turbo-prop.

My opinion- as far as passengers are concerned, jet way better than prop, large jet better than small jet.

Did they do it last week for all the B737s after the Turkish crash at Schipol?

Did they do it for the Airbuses after the US1549 Crash in New York?

I'm not doubting they did it in Newark, its just that it seems completely absurd.

By the (il)logic of this, no one would ever fly on any Boeing, Airbus, ATR, BAE, Bombardier, Embraer or any other airplane.

That, coupled with the complete lack of objective evidence that people are in any way avoiding the Q400, renders these sweeping statements absurd.

The general public is not afraid of the Q400--they are afraid, inherently, of flying in general. That's why you always have these statements after every accident, where the exact cause is not immediately known, that "passengers are refusing to fly on the _______" You can fill in the blank with any transport aircraft built in the last eighty years.

FWIW, i don't particularly like travelling on props nor do i feel like rolling the dice on the CRJ200's flaps working on a that day.

i have never changed my flight from a prop (although i should have - rough flight and almost chucked my cookies). but i have changed my flight from a crj200 to an E175.

i guess i'm a normal crazy pax :D

The general public views turbo props as old unsafe aircraft. They can't tell the difference between a Q400 or a Dash8-200. All they know is it has that props and not jets. My mother wouldn't get on a TP, to her anything smaller than a 737 is unsafe. When a larger jet goes down people chalk it up to "it happens sometimes", when a RJ or a TP goes down it is because they are unsafe and a miracle they stay in the air to begin with. It is just a stereotype that you will have to live with.

you should hear some of the comments when people board up on the Caravan!:)