[17] The reason for Saab to cease the production of this aircraft type is due to limited demand, and the low sales during the production period was due to the success of regional jets such as the Bombardier CRJ and Embraer ERJ 145 family which provided better passenger comfort combined with better profitability.

[16] France-based carrier Regional Airlines of Nantes took delivery of its first Saab 2000 turboprop in Paris in year 1995, which was scheduled to serve between Lyon and Madrid.

[18] In year 1996, the carrier accepted its fifth Saab 2000 into service, and the aircraft was assigned for the Marseille to Amsterdam route in August 1996.

[28] Estonian airline NyxAir acquired two[30] ex-Loganair Saab 2000 aircraft in August 2020 to work with Air Leap in Sweden and serving two destinations: Malmö and Ängelholm-Helsingborg, each of them both connected with Stockholm Bromma Airport respectively.

[Note 3] Starting in May 2021, NyxAir's 50-seat Saab 2000 aircraft were once assigned to Finland to operate the Kemi-Kokkola-Helsinki and Jyväskylä-Helsinki routes.

The 50-seat Saab 2000 aircraft also served between Finnish capital Helsinki and the Estonian resort town Pärnu in summer seasonal service of year 2023.

[45][46][47] According to a press [48] citing the airline founder Orin Seybert’s saying, Saab 2000 is considered as a plane designed for trips to Unalaska that the turboprop can reach 30,000 feet, travel 400 mph and still land on a 4,000-foot runway.

[49] In 2022, Aleutian Airways has been granted approval to start charter and scheduled air service to Unalaska upon completion of a test-flight using Saab 2000 aircraft, and after that charter service commences in September 2022[50] and the Aleutian Airways' first scheduled flight serving Unalaska commences in 16 November 2022.

[53][54] Further example acquired in November 2022 [53][55] is an ex-Eastern Airways' Saab 2000 aircraft[Note 6] previously served in the United Kingdom.

For military use, Pakistan completed, in June 2006, the purchase of six Saab 2000 turboprop aircraft equipped with the Saab-Ericsson ERIEYE Airborne Early Warning system while revised in May 2007 due to renegotiation with the Government of Pakistan that only five aircraft would be delivered and four of which to be equipped with the Erieye system.

On 3 April 2008, the first Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C was rolled out and presented to Pakistan Air Force officials during a ceremony in Sweden.