I fly out of smaller airports all the time and the only choice I have is RJs. I don't mind (in fact prefer) the CRJ-200 models because they are only 50 passengers and you don't feel like you're being loaded into a cattle car when boarding. Recently we were put on a CRJ-900 and it was awful. Cramped seating, crappy boarding experience because everybody is carrying as much luggage as they can aboard with them to avoid fees....so the ailse are jammed (narrow in the 900 anyway) with people trying to fit bags into the overhead and then on de-planning it is the same thing. I actually miss the old SAAB 340Bs!!!! (not wanting to give away my age but I really enjoyed the old Fairchild/Fokker 50s)
Wow! Best example I can think of for Spouses taking co-pilot course. She had to have a lot of skill to bring that twin down...she had "minor injuries" ...did she have an incident on landing? Also..."twin-engined" and "cessna" ...was this a 310? 340? 401?
ding, ding, ding ...WE HAVE A WINNER! The rush to secure the airports was indeed a political action and not based on intelligence and reason. If you had said this four years ago somebody would have yelled "treason"...maybe the country is returning to its senses.