Originally Posted by
frankmu
Unfortunately, Skywest is retiring their EMB-120. I take it the cost of running the CR-200 is resulting in loss of service to communities like KMT, MOD, and reduction of service for us in OTH to 3 times a week for the winter. I don't think there is a replacement for this class of aircraft.
There's no obvious choice, but there are options more efficient than the Brasilia (mostly due to upgraded engines rather than a new fuselages):
While out of production there's definitely appears to be a used market for the Q200.
It seems to be more or less dead to the US after Roselawn, but the ATR-42 has had it's problems fixed (even used by SAS) and is still being refreshed (first delivery of the -600 was in 2012).
Russia/China are still making an old Antonov design
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