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Originally Posted by enviroian
Give me a Q400 any day over a CR2.
Yup. As someone who moved overseas as a kid for a while and flew on these all over the place, I've never understood the American aversion to prop planes.
My location is only 30 minute flight to ORD, but I will look at flying another airline instead of flying CR2's, they are the most uncomfortable plane in any fleet
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Originally Posted by njvandy
I imagine the idea here is to restore some of routes previously serviced by the E145. I'm sure I'm dreaming here, but it would be nice to see them add a small F cabin, even if it's just 1x2 for the first 2 rows.
Given the weight and balance on this plane, they'd have to downgrade everyone in F if the flight isn't full. Or put the F seats in the back. (The CRJ-200 is very nose-heavy)
From AA's perspective, is a CR2 really better than an ER140/145? At what point do we bring back props?
I expect that AA is doing this more for the pilots than for the aircraft. My hope is that the Air Wisconsin pilots will be trained -- over time -- to fly the larger regional jets that AA seems to prefer, and that the Air Wisconsin fleet will eventually transition to such jets.
Aug 22, 2022, 3:38 pm
My condolence to AA flyers.