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Old Nov 21, 2022 | 7:32 am
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Originally Posted by gojko88
Sorry to ask such an insensitive question in what is obviously a difficult emotional moment for LO, but who in the world is/will be nostalgic after the DH8?
I am. Not necessarily for the experience of flying in them (which I find OK though and certainly better than ATRs, though a bit worse than most E-jets), but mainly for the fact that they are invariably replaced by larger jets in the puerile hunt for CASM without regard for market capacity.

What we end up with is small markets getting cut off from service, because while they could profitably fill a smaller turboprop, they will not be able to do the same with the jets.

At least LO has E170s of similar size (but higher cost), but OS for example went more than 50% largest for the smallest plane in fleet.
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