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Old Aug 10, 2012, 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Seat 2A
Way to burn through the questions, gang. These others remain unanswered, so I'll leave them out til this evening, then answer them and take an extended leave. Now, back to the squirrel hunt on this fine autumn morning here in East Ester.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.
In view of the fact that I did rather well with regard to my above answers, it appears I can now make some really wild guesses and hopefully not crash and burn too badly!

So here goes.....

3. North Central

16. United

19. United

21. BWIA?

BTW, I did a bit of research and discovered the following scheduled flight from JFK to St. Kitts back in early April of 1981:

AA 420: Depart JFK 11:20am, arrive SKB 2:15pm Equipment: B707 Note: operated on Thursday only.

However, this was probably the tail end of AA's winter schedule as the high season in the Caribbean usually begins around December 15 and then ends by April 15, and flight schedules are adjusted accordingly. Thus, October is not the high season in the Caribbean, so perhaps "Britain's Worst Investment Abroad" (also known as "Bee Wee") was picking up the slack here.

And for a truly wild guess, if it wasn't BWIA, perhaps it was Air Jamaica?

You'll also note I did not mention any equipment types as I really have no bloody idea.

Last edited by jlemon; Aug 10, 2012 at 3:11 pm Reason: Removal of one crazy guess
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