Originally Posted by
virginblue
LCY has been served from IOM by DHC8-300s and Fokker 50s in the past, so something slower than the Saab 2000 is not really unusual on the route. In all fairness, the ATR42-600 can do 300 knots, so we are looking at somethin like a 15 per cent difference in speed.
From what I’ve seen the first few are -500s which are barely different anyway. Will be interesting to see the make up of the rest of the frames!