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Old Aug 10, 2012, 2:57 am
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13. This airline operated the only daily nonstop 747 service between Washington Dulles and Chicago.

I'm guessing this is United.
Sorry, guess again...
My guess is that this was Northwest, a 747 routing New York JFK-Washington-Chicago-Tokyo. Not particularly competitive with Pan Am's pioneer nonstop (well, on a good day with a following wind, and if things still looked good when approaching Anchorage) flight from New York to Tokyo of those times, and I presume in the "old days" the fares were the same and interchangeable on all carriers.
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