Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
The notion that a 90-seater could be developed from the Saab 2000 is ludicrous.
Indeed, and I wasn't aware it was being proposed in this (very interesting) thread. There has been one strand talking about a hypothetical 90-seat new design, and another (maybe two) talking about the possibility of putting an updated S2000, or even S340, with modern systems, back in production. These are fundamentally different markets and fundamentally different development program price tags and there isn't really any overlap between the 30-50 seat question and the 90 seat one. One could perhaps manage to stretch the S2000 slightly, but only slightly, and 50 seats is a fairly "standard" size unless you can get close to 70, which may well already be impractical.