It's got nothing to do with tail strikes. It is to do as mentioned, with the reduced cross wind limit, parking, the q400 being lively in the smallest of turbulence....the bonus however is if you get an engine failure after v1 with a strong northerly and flying towards canary wharf (as I did in the sim) you can outclimb the tower. Not so in the Classic Dash8. Also how does opperating a q400 in to LCY fit into a low cost model? Word from EXT is that they are trying to get VLM to take over the BHD-IOM-LCY route.