Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
A few DC-9s also passed through Montana. I once flew a DEN-GTF-FCA-GEG-SEA routing on Hughes Airwest and Northwest used to operate the nines on flights to BIL/GTF out of MSP.
Quite right! I was speaking, of course, of the former Boeing jet service provided by Delta, Frontier, Northwest and Western. And in the case of NW, this was before they acquired Republic and the introduction of DC-9 equipment into the NW fleet. I also recall seeing a NW DC-9-30 at BZN during my DL 72S flight from BTM to SLC via BZN back in the day. And I remember flying BOI-MSP on board a NW A319 in F after their 72S service in the same market was discontinued.
And let us not forget the Fokker F-28 "Fellowship" jet service operated by Horizon Air as well! These F-28 flights were eventually replaced with Q400 service by Horizon.