Originally Posted by
strickerj
Interesting, it was all Saab 340’s just one year earlier. I’m glad I got the opportunity to ride on one (and in the best seat, no less - 11A, the last row on the single side).
Between American Eagle and Northwest Airlink, I spent quite a bit of time flying in Saab 340 aircraft back in the day. We called them the "Saab story".....
And I always wanted to fly on board a Saab 2000 but never had the opportunity to do so. I believe the only operator of the Saab 2000 in scheduled service in North America is PenAir up in Alaska (although they've apparently been experiencing financial difficulties and it appears PenAir may have now joined the Ravn airline group up there which includes the former Era Aviation, a company I previously worked for).
I also seem to recall that Pro Air was planning to introduce Saab 2000 flights as a feeder service with aircraft that GM had been using in corporate shuttle configuration.....but it never happened and Pro Air subsequently went out of business.