Originally Posted by
Saabdriver1
It's more likely that this has been the plan for some time and only being made public now. You don't pull together an entire sale of the Saab 340s and lease replacement ATRs in the space of a couple of weeks.
Operating crosswind limit on the 42s is the same as the 340 at 35kts. 72 is 27kts on a wet runway.
Didn't British World have some operational issues with their ATR72 when operating into Shetland? Or was this mainly a Scatsta issue?