Originally Posted by
jackal
How did the AA interchange service work?
The map above indicates "through plane service."
Was it one carrier's aircraft and another carrier's crew or something?
Ya, Fairbanks tended to be the end-of-the-road for the interchange service. We would get AA 727s in Fairbanks that would be run by Alaska crews on the portion north of Seattle. At least that is what I remember.
You could always tell the difference between an AA727 and an AS727 as American crammed more seats in than Alaska did.
IIRC, at one point the through-plane service to Houston was done with Continental 727s in the same fashion.