Anyone familiar with the size of these planes?

[Luv2Travel]

My mother MAY go with us on our next trip to the *world*. The problem is she is terrified of flying because she is TERRIBLY claustrophobic (sp?). We will have to heavily sedate her to get her on the plane . So, I have to be really careful with the size of the plane that I book. The bigger, the better! Anyway, I was checking out the USAirways' flights and was wondering what size these planes are. Has anyone ever riden or seen a Fokker Jet 100, or a Dehavilland Dash 8 (used by USAirways Express - Piedmont Airlines)? The later one sounds like a crop duster to me which will NOT fly with my mother! Any one an expert on airplanes or jets out there? TIA

 

[Beckles]

The Fokker 100 is one of the smallest big planes if that makes any sense It's a real jet aircraft, just one of the smallest. It seats around 100 people and has 3 seats on one side and 2 on the other (3-2 seating ... or is it 2-3 ...).

The Dash 8 is a twin engine prop plane ... a fairly large one, but typically it seats around 37 (but there are larger ones, but I don't think US operates the really large Dash 8's).

 

[pumba]

a person isn't shoved into spaces with no leg or arm room......just a thought

 

[Luv2Travel]

Thank you Beckles for the good descriptions. That's pretty much what I was afraid of. I think my mother would litterally die before she would get on a plane that small. Thanks again for the info, better to know now than after I bought the tickets and we went to board!

Pumba - not a bad suggestion. I may be buying her ticket though, and that makes 7 tickets I've got to buy. Not sure the ole budget can handle that one?!

 

[Beckles]

There's no first class on the prop planes anyway ...