Originally Posted by Seat 2A

It's been a while since any questions have been posted and I had the morning free, so...

Since then I've been waiting for a time of day to post when many of us are typically on the internet, and as such will allow more of us to have a reasonable chance to answer at least a few of these questions. Good luck, all!

1. What was the first non-U.S. airline to launch a new Boeing aircraft? What kind of aircraft was it? ANSWERED

2. In 1973, which airline and aircraft provided nonstop service between Los Angeles and San Juan, PR?

3. This Midwestern airline ordered two 737-200C and one 737-200. Had it taken delivery of any of these aircraft (it never did), it would have been the first airline to operate the 737-200 Combi.

4. Which airline was instead the launch customer for the 737-200 Combi? ANSWERED

5. What was the first U.S. regional airline to inaugurate jet aircraft service? What kind of aircraft was it? ANSWERED

6. Which U.S. airline named its jets “Vista Jets”? ANSWERED

7. What was the first airline to order and operate the Boeing 747F (The first 747 built as a freighter from the beginning of its production)

8. At least three airlines have marketed their aircraft as “Starliners”. One was foreign and two of them American. Name the airlines and the aircraft so marketed.

9. Which U.S. Airline was known as the “Airline Of The Stars”? ANSWERED

10. What was the first U.S. airline to sell tickets on the web in 1995 and the first to introduce web check-in, in September 1999? ANSWERED

For you timetable aficionados, the following questions are based upon schedules from the October 15, 1981 OAG. I reckon any diligent OAG readers should be able to come up with a good guess if not the correct answer right off the top of their heads.

11. This was the only airline offering nonstop service between New Orleans and Cleveland.

12. This airline operated Martin 404s between Miami and Key West, Florida.

13. This airline operated the only daily nonstop 747 service between Washington Dulles and Chicago.

14. While two other airlines operated DC-9s on the 765 mile route between Houston and Mexico City, these two airlines offered 747 service.

15. Which two airlines provided the only nonstop jet service between Los Angeles and Fresno?

16. This airline provided once weekly nonstop jet service between Grand Junction and Los Angeles.

17. This airline offered nonstop single class service aboard a DC-10 between Honolulu and Los Angeles. ANSWERED

18. This airline operated daily nonstop DC-3 service between Tampa and Naples, Florida.

19. This airline operated one daily flight utilizing a single class DC-8-61 between Chicago and New York JFK?

20. Everyone knows that Northwest operated lots of flights from Minneapolis to all three New York airports. Only one other airline offered nonstop flights into any of the three New York airports. That airport was Newark. Name the airline.

21. This airline offered once weekly nonstop service between St. Kitts, Leeward Islands and New York JFK. Name the airline and the aircraft used on this route.

22. Name the four airlines that provided nonstop jet service between Denver and Phoenix.

23. This airline offered nonstop Fokker F28 service between Greensboro and Raleigh, NC.

24. This airline offered the only service between New York’s three airports and Utica, New York. Name the airline and the jet that it flew.

25. These two airlines operated daily nonstop Convair 580 service between Burbank and Lake Tahoe, CA.