Midwest Carrier Offers Scheduled Caravan Service - Aviation International News
, to Chicago has been delayed several hours by weather, and the grandmotherly station agent is offering to make the eight waiting passengers free pizza. The airline operates a fleet of eight nine-passenger Cessna Grand Caravans resplendent in executive interiors with six slide/swivel/reclining single leather seats. And it is adding a pair of new Grand Caravan anti-icing. Air Choice flies with two-pilot crews, but there’s no beverage service, movies or in-flight Internet. However, you do get large private-jet-class legroom and a nice view out the Caravan’s big windows while cruising low (at altitudes from 6,000 to 9,000 feet) and slow (155 to 180 knots). Passengers seated in the first row immediately behind the cockpit during summer months also get the added thrill of being able to see the pilots dodge those big magenta blobs on the weather radar. The Chicago flights deplane at well worn Terminal 3. Reminiscent of simpler times, passengers step off the airplane onto the ramp and are greeted by the wafting odor of burning kerosene and the occasional pelt of precipitation, before being... Source: www.ainonline.com
