Yeah... Imagine that

I got one, how about Piedmont??

I doubt Colgan...it is public that 15 more are coming for CAL with 15 options. Colgan has 15 confirmed planes as well.

I cant imagine that they would just order 5 random planes and not make that public as well amongst the other 45 airframes.

Guaranteed that one of the FA's would sue claiming "I was groped by a belted down pax, while flying through the air", DOh

No, this is an order for NEW planes.

I agree with you but I will throw this out there...

United walked away from signing a deal with Colgan in Feb for Q's out of Denver or Los Angeles. Why? 3407. As soon as 3407 happened they walked because they did not want the bad press at the time. It would not be crazy to think a order went in without an announcement because United still wants the 3407 buzz to quiet down a bit more.

Who knows

Could be any of these airlines, or maybe a new one! But that wouldn't be as much fun....

Series 400 operators

Major operators include:
Air Berlin (10 on order)
Air Nippon Network (14)
Arik Air (4 on order)
Augsburg Airways (9)
Austrian Arrows (10)
Colgan Air (14)
Croatia Airlines (4, 2 on order, 4 on option)
Flybaboo (2)
Flybe (38, 19 on order)
Frontier Airlines (as Lynx Aviation) (10, 10 on option)
Horizon Air (37, 11 on order, 20 on option)
Island Aviation Services (1)
Japan Air Commuter (9, 1 on order)
Jeju Air (5)
Luxair (3)
Malév (4, 4 on order, 4 on option)
Mozambique Airlines (1, 3 on order)
Olympic Airlines(4)*leased (8 orders, 8 on option)[4]
PAL Express (6)
Porter Airlines (12, 8 on order)[5]
SATA Air Açores (10 on order)
Scandinavian Airlines System (as airBaltic and Widerøe) (14 on order)[6]
QantasLink (14, 7 on order, 24 on option)
Sky Work Airlines (1)[7]
South African Express (2)
Tassili Airlines (4)
Widerøe (5, 2 on order)
Wings Air (8 on order)

OK, no credible source, but there's a rumor flying around ASA and SkyWest that SkyWest is getting Q400s. Could these go to replace Mesa's Dash-8's in Denver? We will know by October when United has to inform Mesa if those Dash-8's are going to be pulled. FWIW.

Its not very cost-effective to only have 5 of an airframe...

Yep we can't get USED 300s