Expect to see a lot more returns to base...
And that's the pity, in that compared to things like the ATR's it's not bad from the SLF point of view, as long as it's reliable.
It's pressurised, has good speeds, reasonable space, the noise levels are not anything like as bad as some of the older TP's ( The F27 it replaced comes to mind
), and it appears that if it's working reliably, the direct operating cost is also not unreasonable, so it's useful for skinny point to point sectors, and Flybe do seem to have found quite a few of them to use it on.
OK, the gear design makes it a pig to land smoothly, and I suspect the length means that it has to be treated with due respect to avoid tail strikes.
They were just coming on stream when I moved on from ramp work at DUB, the one thing that seemed to be an issue at that time was APU's, most often they'd arrive in with it unservicable, and from memory, Servisair did Flybe no favours with their handling, several aircraft were damaged by SA using incorrect GPU's on the aircraft, which did damage, as the wrong GPU's didn't have current limiters, so fried bits that were not capable of taking the current drawn. Flybe had provided GPU's, but that didn't always mean that the relevant people used them, any old 28V capable GPU got dragged to stand, and some of them had seen better days!
I just hope that whatever gremlin it is that's causing the problems has been identified, and is now being well and truly stuffed back down it's hole.