The Porter Airlines De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q400 seats 78 passengers across 1 cabin. Every row below is rated on legroom, location and distance from galleys and lavatories.
Verified by John McKeanLast verified 7 July 2026Single source
Avoid 19A, 19B, 19C, 19D, 20A, 20B, 20C, 20D (Near galley (behind) — expect noise and bright light during meal prep)
The Porter Airlines De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q400 carries 78 passengers across Economy only. Every seat is rated below, so you can see which have the legroom, the window alignment and the quiet — and which sit next to a galley or lavatory.
No seats are individually rated best on this configuration yet. The front rows of each cabin usually give a small legroom edge and clear quickest on arrival.
Seats rated avoid on this map are 19A, 19B, 19C, 19D, 20A, 20B. Another 2 seats are rated avoid. These are usually the back rows near the galley and lavatories, or middle seats with no window or aisle.
The Dash 8-400 is a turboprop for shorter regional routes, so it flies lower and shorter than Porter's Embraer jets and carries the propeller hum those aircraft have. The service and the no-middle-seat two-by-two cabin are the same, so what changes is the flying character rather than the class. It is quieter than older turboprops but still a prop aircraft.
The propellers sit at the wingline, so the rows level with the propeller plane get the most noise. A few rows forward of or behind that line are noticeably calmer, which is the pick for anyone sensitive to sound. The rear also sits closer to the galley and lavatory.
No. Like Porter's jets, the Dash 8-400 is arranged two-by-two, so every seat is a window or an aisle with no middle anywhere in the cabin. The no-middle-seat promise holds even on the smaller regional aircraft.
On a scenic short hop the window seats forward of or behind the wing give the clearest view, since the seats level with the wing lose part of it. Either side works depending on the route and the light. With no middle seat in the cabin, any window is a true window.
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