The whole Dash 8 family is great and capable of some pretty extreme approaches and departures compared to others. There is another long flight between Calgary, Alberta and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in Canada served by WestJet Encore and Jazz Aviation. 1102 miles or 1773 kilometers.
The Dash-8 was the very first aircraft I flew in as a teenager for the first time in my life. When I first walked up towards it during boarding, it was the most beautiful aircraft I had ever seen - with its aggressive pointy nose and that exaggerated wide stance of the main landing gear. As an adult, I used to fly on it all the time between Manchester and Southampton for work commitments, before Flybe got into financial difficulties. Even though I have now flown in more modern aircraft like the the 787-10, the A350-1000, and the A220-300, the Dash-8 Q400 still remains my favourite aircraft of all time.
Routed YTZ-YOW-YHZ-YYT on Porter back in 2014. Great experience. Also flew TXL-CPH-WAW in 2006 with SAS and between EWR-YTZ on Porter many times. Great plane.
Use to fly with a Dash 8 - 100 with long range tanks from Sandefjord til Tromsø in Norway which was a little over 1200km and then onto Svalbard a little over 900km further on. The job we performed was navigation and ILS inspections.
@@donaldstanfield8862 it just takes too long ... and the noise level ... even the cabin staff complained of that line. not easy to spent >2 hours in a DASH Q400
Done several Q400 YUL to YTZs and YYT to YHZs. It lands in anything including thick fog. The two Pratt and Whitney's have enormous climbing power and performance. The props and engines are such a back to the future flying experience. Really like this aircraft. Really like where these props are heading as we move to low carbon options in the future. Flying distance St. John's to Halifax is 881 kms. It is the exclusive go to plane on that route over 3 or 4 different carriers. Takes about 1 hour and forty minutes.
Toronto City Airport (YTZ) - Melbourne, Florida (MLB) & Ottawa (YOW) - Melbourne, Florida (MLB) are very popular routes and some of the longest ones in Canada for the Q-400
Took the mhh-lax flight 31 times before they left the market and it is such a joy and a thrill with the approach being directly over the Eastern sierras and made for very beautiful photos
I have flown on the Dash-8-400 a lot, the longest one Maputo to Quelimane on Mozambique Airlines (only 550 miles). It’s a workhorse. In my opinion this is the right plane for the fast growing African Market especial for city’s with small runways.
Great little plane, jumped on at Southampton Airport and used to zip up to Manchester when FLYBE ruled the skies out of Southampton. Hopefully this will happen again with FLYBE set to return.
@@VisualApproach They won't go bust because they are only starting with a small fleet of aircraft and all the debts they had from the Embraer jets etc are gone.
I flew a Dash 8 from DCA to Westchester County outside NYC on US Airways back in the day. I was really surprised at the amount of legroom. It was very comfortable for the hour or so ride.
From a passengers point of view the Dash 8 will always give outstanding ride comfort and interior amenities. Flying in a Dash 8 is more like riding in a large airliner. I have flown in them many times in New Zealand and quite often its easy to forget that you are in a small regional plane. They are also a very capable machine from a performance point of view too. I have also had the pleasure of spending a few years working on them as a mechanic in Perth.
The Dash 8-400 is an excellent plane to fly! It has lots of power and has very responsive controls. Jazz Aviation/Air Canada Express does one of the shortest flights in a 400, Vancouver to Victoria. The flight can be airborne for as little as 15 minutes or less.
I was in a Dash 8-400 from Guernsey to Southampton (then onward the same day to Amsterdam Schipol in Dash 8-400) in the middle of Storm Ciara (Feb 2020). These things fly through anything and feel oddly strong while being buffeted about by the conditions. That day was horrendous for flying. We were the only flight to leave Guernsey and one of the only ones to leave Southampton. Gsy-Soton leg was much more turbulent although it still wasn't a day for the drinks service on either flight!
There is a Dash 8 Operator out of Perth, Western Australia, that does Perth - Geraldton - Karratha - Broome (1204 mi) and Perth - Alice Springs (1230 mi).
used to fly on them quite regularly between Southampton and Manchester with one flight being Southampton to Glasgow (my longest route on this plane) and another from Southampton to Newcastle
Nice video. There are some routes missing. Air Iceland flew scheduled flights from Keflavik Iceland to Aberdeen Scotland and Belfast N Ireland from 2016-2019. Route sector Kef-Abz 750 nm and Kef- Bhd 770 nm. 72 seat configuration and no problem with fully loaded airplane.
When I lived in Buffalo, NY always preferred the Q400 if I couldn’t get a seat in an A320 operated by JetBlue. Way way better flight experience for 6’+ tall people than the typical CRJ-200 service most other regionals offered. Now I live in Scottsdale, AZ and think the smallest thing I travel on is a E-175. The Dash 8-200 (with US Airways I think?) was also fun because you could have a window and aisle seat and would always board without a jetway but the flight experience on the 400 from recollection was vastly superior.
My first flight in a Q400 was a fam flight. I flew jump seat from CYVR-CYXT-CYVR, then did CYVR-CYYJ-CYVR, all in one day. I've been to quite a few places around Canada since then. I like dispatching Boeings, much better.
Flown more than 30 times to small cities in Norway with Widerøe Dash Q400-200 and 100, great aircraft that really let you feel how beautiful flying can be.
Canada’s Porter Airlines flies the Q400, with their home base at Billy Bishop Airport, located on the island in-front of Toronto’s CN Tower. Because of the runway length limitations, the planes have 2 fewer rows of seats than the maximum possible for the Q400. . . which means that long-legged people like me (6’3”) can fly in comfort with the 34” seat pitch. The plane is very fast for a TurboProp, but even if it’s not as fast as a pure jet, I’d sooner spend an extra hour on it than on a Budget A320, with my knees up around my eardrums 😉
I have flown with the Dash-8 400 from Toronto Island via Ottawa and Halifax to St. John's, Newfoundland. The entire route took 6 hours. While the crew on Porter Airlines was first rate, I would not recommend such a seat configuration for such a long flight, as it was very cramped. A lot does depend on the chosen seat configuration.
My longest Dash 8 flight was not too far, only YYC to YYJ. It was the final leg in a trip that went BHD->LHR->YYC->YYJ. The Dash 8 flight I'm very familiar with is the 20 minute hop between YYJ and YVR.
I’ve had to fly quite a few times between Melbourne in southern Australia to Rockhampton which is in the middle of the northern state of Queensland. Typically the flight involves a jet service between Melbourne and Brisbane and a Dash 8 service for the second leg. Though in flight entertainment is non-existent for the Brisbane-Rockhampton portion of the journey, paradoxically there’s more leg room on the QantasLink Dash 8 compared to a regular Qantas B737.
Only time I was on a Dash 8 was on December last year flying 500 mile route from Ballina to Sydney Australia but the captain called in sick and we got canceled and were put in to a Boeing 737-800.
Im SEA based, and enjoy a Q-400 flight every now and then with Alaska/Horizon. I paricularly like how quickly i can depart the aircraft upon arrival. I prefer them to regional jets on shorter flights. I've also flown on Q400s of airBaltic and euroLOT.
I flew in the cockpit of a Flybe Dash 8-400, it's an amazing aircraft, so fast, agile and rugged. Compared to the likes of the Embraer or an Airbus A320.
I love the Dash 8's but not too many options for me to fly on prop jobs these days, but maybe I'll relocate upon retirement and find myself in turboprop country again!
I've been on 2 dash 8 q400 flights Santa rosa to Los angeles, and to Seattle. I honestly like these dash 8 planes especally the q400 since I'm trying to make a lego version of Alaska airlines.
My experience on a dash 8 was the scariest I I have ever been, not sure but I think it was a 200 but coming from Portland to LAX I had a layover in Reno where we switched from a 737 to the dash 8 and the turbulence was so bad, I couldn't wait to get off.....it was Alaska airlines
Being on a turboprop aircraft is like having a metal bin on your head and someone hitting it with a hammer so the less time you spend on one the better.
I really want to fly this airplane, but only LOT and Sprint air operate flights from my home airport. LOT is too expensive ans I can't find where to buy Sprint air tickets
It's probably because few people outside Scandinavia can pronounce Widerøe properly 🤣🤣🤣. I've flown with them several times. That is one company who knows how to fly in rough conditions and still land in one safely. 😊
I think it is a very nice aircraft. It is of course louder, than most jetaircraft, but that doesn't matter to me... also it is the only Turboprop I have ever been on yet 😂
The Dash 8 family is far superior to those wretched ATRs. Dash 8s have been operating since the early 1980s. Possibly longer than the Fokker 50 which has come and gone. The Q400 competes well in terms of speed and efficiency with regional jets including ERJs and CRJs etc. They are smooth to fly in, very safe* and extremely versatile in terms meteorological extremes and variations, while their impressive STOL capabilities open up a large number of operations into short runway airfields. The longest flight I’ve been on is just under two hours and that is certainly long enough for any aircraft in that class, all regional turboprops have slimline very basic seats. It is a pity this video did not state the flying times on these longer sectors. They did not seem all that impressive. It was a poorly produced presentation. * there have been issues concerning the main landing gear with Dash 8s over the years with gear collapse on landing or being manually extended after hydraulic extension failed. These have not been the catalyst for any hull losses or passenger fatalities though. I believe that is well since resolved now.