Here's how Seat 2A did.....

5) Alaska Airlines (AS) is an excellent guess as they were indeed serving Khabarovsk (KHV) in the Russian Far East (as well as Magadan and Vladivostok) at this time on a weekly basis with MD-80 equipment. Here are the actual schedules:

AS 201 - SEA-ANC-GDX-KHV-VVO Op: Mondays only (AS 201 departed SEA at 11:00am local and arrived VVO the next day at 9:00pm local)

AS 202 - VVO-KHV-GDX-ANC-SEA Op: Wednesdays only (AS 202 departed VVO at 1:30pm local and arrived SEA the same day at 11:50am local)

However, you'll note that SFO is conspicuously absent from these schedules.

Thus, it was another airline......so please guess again!

10) Air France (AF), Air New Zealand (NZ), AOM (IW) and Qantas (QF) are all correct!

Here are the respective aircraft types operated on the nonstop LAX-PPT route:

AF - Alternated between A340 and B747-400 (depending on specific date ranges)

NZ - B747-200

IW - DC-10-30

QF- B747-200 Combi (74M)

AF, NZ and QF all offered three class service while IW offered two class service (J/Y).

The AF routings were CDG-LAX-PPT and the IW routings were ORY-LAX-PPT.