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Old Jan 6, 2014 | 11:56 am
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Originally Posted by jlemon
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2) In the summer of 1973, Western Airlines was serving three small destinations in the western U.S. with daily Boeing 737-200 service. These three destinations had the smallest populations of any stations served by WA at the time outside of Alaska. Name all three.
Casper WY (CPR)
Sheridan WY (SHR)
West Yellowstone MT (WYS)


Originally Posted by jlemon
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7) This airline was attempting to operate a small hub in Atlantic City (ACY). Nonstop jet service was flown to eleven destinations in the eastern, northeastern and midwestern U.S. as well as to Florida. Name the air carrier and identify the aircraft type it flew.
this would have been American International Airways which operated a small fleet of DC-9s (I'm thinking -30, may have been -80)

Originally Posted by jlemon
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16) This air carrier was operating Boeing 747 service once a week round trip between Portland (PDX) and Chicago (ORD). Identify the airline.
this would be United ... the route from Tokyo went thru Seattle the rest of the week; I rode upstairs on the SEA-ORD segments a couple times
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