Bombardier Aerospace (BBA, Montréal Trudeau) has received a firm order for two Dash 8-400s from a customer in the Middle East and Africa region, that has requested to remain unidentified at this time. Based on the list price of the Q400 NextGen airliner, the order is valued at approximately USD62million.

According to the ch-aviation aircraft database, the following carriers operate the Q400 in Africa - Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International), Arik Air (W3, Lagos), South African Express (EXY, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo), ASKY Airlines (KP, Lomé), Heli Malongo (Luanda 4 De Fevereiro), Bluebird Aviation (Kenya) (BBZ, Nairobi Wilson), Tassili Airlines (SF, Algiers), MEX - Mocambique Expresso (MXE, Maputo), Aero Contractors (N2, Lagos), Smart Aviation (SME, Cairo International), 748 Air Services (FE, Nairobi Wilson), RwandAir (WB, Kigali), and Malawi Airlines (3W, Lilongwe) - while Abu Dhabi Aviation (BAR, Abu Dhabi International) uses the type in the Middle East.