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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 9:49 pm
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Originally Posted by snic
Add SFO-MRY to the shortest flight list (77 miles, compared to 36 for LAX-SNA and 47 for LAX-ONT). IIRC, UA used to fly SFO-MRY with mainline equipment a few decades ago.

Oh, and DEN-COS (73 miles). Did UA ever fly MKE-ORD (67 miles)?
UA flew mainline on ORD-MKE; they also flew SFO-SJC with a 727. I was also once on a DC-8 in the 1980s from ORD to Sacramento that continued onto SFO.

Not UA, but TWA used to tag on several flights from ORD to Rockford in a 727 back in the days before they had buses.
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