For goodness sake, how long are people going to go on pushing this line "passengers don't like props".
IT'S PILOT'S THAT DON'T LIKE PROPS, NOT PASSENGERS.
We keep on harping about it because we don't want our Companies to buy turboprops. A recent Which survey on pax preferences put type and size of a/c at about 17/20.
You only have to look at the NCL FlyBe Dash-8 now reguarly carrying more passengers to Belfast than the Easy 737 !