>>1277725Around the Scottish islands and the Highlands, planes like those are in use for commercial, scheduled flights.
The biggest operator of these planes is Loganair, which is a Scottish airline focusing on providing these services.
About 20 years ago, Loganair were contacted by British Airways, so you could have gotten onto a small British Airways liveried plane from an airfield with a grass runway to Glasgow and then connect onto a domestic flight to London. That ended, and FlyBe took over the ticketing and liveries, and you could have connected from the same remote islands to Glasgow to then get onto whatever Dash-8 or Embraer 175 to wherever.
As of a few years ago, Loganair ended their contracts which larger airlines, and now liveries all their planes in their own livery and handle their own ticketing with no connections outside of Scotland from Glasgow.
Fun fact: Loganair operates planes so small, they only have one pilot. The second seat in the cockpit is basically filled with a safety pilot who only assists with instrument monitoring and checklists. These planes have to switch between IFR with larger airports and VFR for sand and grass runways.
