Here's my breakdown:
Metro: Cheap to buy; passenger appeal zero; good speed but with handling issues. Payload range first class, but with light airframe that turns to junk ; economic fuel burn. Cheap to lease/buy
J31/2: passenger appeal high; Speed good; airframe built like brick-sh1t house and resultantly payload range with limitations, particularly for Aussie market; just behind Metro on fuel burn. Cheap to lease buy
B1900C: Fast, but passenger appeal zero; high fuel burn; mid price to buy/lease
B1900D: Fast, passenger appeal good just behind J31/2; high fuel burn; costly to buy/lease
So whatever you operate you end up with a compromise. My choice would probably be for the J32; with nobody building pressurised 19-seaters any more the J32 has the longevity of airframe that I would want.
Last edited by privateer; 2nd Sep 2005 at 23:12.