Originally Posted by
enzian
We need to fly to the Ontario area in May. The Direct AS flight from SEA to ONT is really early in the morning or at night. The Skywest flight is at a reasonable time, but I am not familiar with this airline or the airplane. Is it as noisy as the QX-400 planes that Horizon flies? We tolerate those for the short flight between SEA and BOI, but this flight is almost an hour longer. If noisy, could we avoid somenengin noise by sitting toward the front?
And what should we expect from Skywest in the way of food and drink? I will assume theydon't not pout free wine like Horizon, but do they sell decent meals on board, or should we bring our own?
Oh how horrible that a small city like BOI isn't filled with nothing but mainline jet service. Cities like BOI get the size of aircraft that make economic sense. Really, how spoiled has everyone become.
A Q400 isn't particularly noisy (maybe row 6-10 are a tad noisy), but it hasn't bothered me, ever. As for CRJ/CR7 aircraft being noisy, no one seems to care on the unstretched version of it, which is one of the more luxurious business jets out there.
(a CRJ-200/700/900 is just a stretched CL604 Challenger business jet)