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Old Aug 7, 2005 | 8:53 am
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Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
Guess the airlines and Bombardier couldn't give a f@#k what pax think about these medieval contortionist torture devices. After being stuck in one for a 3.5-hr flight AUS-MEM including a wx diversion to Jackson, MS, I will never fly one as long as I have any choice in the matter. I realise we have it "too good" with the ARJ but the CRJ is a piece of crap, end of story.
I ended up doing a double wx diversion on a CRJ once; first to LSE (LaCrosse, WI) and then into FAR (Fargo, ND). That sucked big time and I spent the night in an older Marriott property near MSP once we did get in.

As we were en-route to MSP, a line of T-Storms was over the area so we diverted to LSE to ride the storms out. Once it looked like MSP was clearing (and we had storms headed to LSE which would of grounded us there), we took off for MSP with a flight path which took us back south and around the storms. Between air traffic and a second round of t-storms in the MSP area, we diverted to FAR (Fargo). The temperature was 20 degrees cooler in FAR than LSE as we were now behind the front. After a second wait on the ground we took off and made it into MSP. Lots of other diverted planes on the ground with us at both LSE and FAR. This was the afternoon departure from SDF to MSP - the evening SDF-MSP DC-9 flight arrived about the same time. I vow to never spend this much time on a CRJ again!

Friend's don't let friend's fly CRJs!

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