Which airline for short hop flight to Scotland?

Woodville56

Soon to fly to Scotland for family event near Edinburgh.
Options for most convenient cheapest flights from west of Ireland are Aerlingus (Stobart ) ATR aircraft from Shannon or FlyBE ( Bombardier Dash) aircraft from Knock. Bit of a nervous flier so would be grateful for any advice or travelers experiences or preference for either of these aircraft for the short trip.
Thanks

uck51js9zml2yt

Have flown stobart Dublin to Kerry and a bombardier last week on an internal Indian flight. The bombardier was nice but had no problems with stobart.
Just different routes/ planes. They were similar flight times

Locker10a

As a passenger both are an almost identical experience. Both comfortable, and enjoyable to travel on.

whomitconcerns

puddle jumpers/turbo props whatever you want to call them. I think they make it more of a flying experience. Its a bit different a lot smaller of a plane and doesnt have to fly as high up.

I'm taking bmi to edinburgh next week on one. Its my gf and her mothers first time on one

Cocobongo

I fly fairly often to the uk and have used most of the possible airlines or planes. I used to be a nervous flyer, but to be honest with you it makes no difference flying on different planes, smaller planes don’t go up as high and in my opinion they aren’t any more shaky than the bigger ones, so just take the cheapest option and you’ll be grand

schemingbohemia

Just one thing to be aware of, the overhead baggage bins are usually a lot smaller and so they may take your bag and put it in the hold, the beauty of these planes is that they'll usually just have it waiting at the bottom of the stairs when you get off so you won't have to wait at the carousel inside.
I've found the smaller planes a bit smoother usually.

Cocobongo

This is what i took today when took a flight to leeds - really nothing to worry about, super smooth flight

Doltanian

Ryanair would be my advice, any sort of winds and the small turbo-prop flights get cancelled wheras Ryanair with the jets can fly in worse conditions, provided they have pilots to fly the thing

Locker10a

Doltanian wrote: »

Ryanair would be my advice, any sort of winds and the small turbo-prop flights get cancelled wheras Ryanair with the jets can fly in worse conditions, provided they have pilots to fly the thing

That's not accurate information at all

Woodville56

Doltanian wrote: »

Ryanair would be my advice, any sort of winds and the small turbo-prop flights get cancelled wheras Ryanair with the jets can fly in worse conditions, provided they have pilots to fly the thing

The only problem there (pilot availability etc notwithstanding) is the travel to the hell that is Dublin Airport compared with the relaxed and close by options of Shannon or Knock. RyanAir don’t do Edinburgh from either !
So it’s a bit of a gamble really - hope for fair weather and fly from the west or brave the throngs for Dublin departure !

Locker10a

Woodville56 wrote: »

Doltanian wrote: »

Ryanair would be my advice, any sort of winds and the small turbo-prop flights get cancelled wheras Ryanair with the jets can fly in worse conditions, provided they have pilots to fly the thing

The only problem there (pilot availability etc notwithstanding) is the travel to the hell that is Dublin Airport compared with the relaxed and close by options of Shannon or Knock. RyanAir don’t do Edinburgh from either !
So it’s a bit of a gamble really - hope for fair weather and fly from the west or brave the throngs for Dublin departure !

It's extremely rare to have the type of weather that affects the particular aircraft mentioned in the discussion. Over the past few years we have had occasional winter storms and the Dash 8 and ATR have faired equally as well to their jet counterparts

Locker10a

Woodville56 wrote: »

Doltanian wrote: »

Ryanair would be my advice, any sort of winds and the small turbo-prop flights get cancelled wheras Ryanair with the jets can fly in worse conditions, provided they have pilots to fly the thing

The only problem there (pilot availability etc notwithstanding) is the travel to the hell that is Dublin Airport compared with the relaxed and close by options of Shannon or Knock. RyanAir don’t do Edinburgh from either !
So it’s a bit of a gamble really - hope for fair weather and fly from the west or brave the throngs for Dublin departure !

It's extremely rare to have the type of weather that affects the particular aircraft mentioned in the discussion. Over the past few years we have had occasional winter storms and the Dash 8 and ATR have faired equally as well to their jet counterparts