Originally Posted by
jlemon
...13) ... Direct red eye flight departing LAS in a just a few hours at 1:30am that will get you into TPA by 12:30pm. ...
Originally Posted by
jrl22
I will hazard two guesses (yes I know that's pushing the envelope wrt "process" but the question has been sitting out there for 10 days now):
1- an Eastern 727 (variant not specified) via PHX, MCI, STL, ATL, SRQ
2- a Republic DC9 (variant not specified) via PHX, MEM, BNA, BHM, ATL
Originally Posted by
jlemon
both answers are incorrect! Please guess again!
ok ... a couple months back (Post 3589, answered in Post 3647) we discussed Delta 727-200 service DFW-BTR-MOB-ATL in 1994
I know they had a couple other multi-stop DFW-ATL flights in the late 1970s, and I suspect these were still in existence in Dec 1985 ... I'm pretty sure they all served JAN, but there are two possibilities (SHV, MLU) for the first stop and two possibilities for the third (BHM, MGM)
a flight originating LAS at 130amPST would have landed DFW around 545CST and left around 615; four 30- to 40-min legs with 20-min ground times at the three intermediate points would have put the jet into ATL around 1045EST; and an 1115 departure would indeed have blocked in at TPA approx 1230pmEST
since the rules say I have to provide a complete answer I will go with DL, 72S, LAS-DFW-SHV-JAN-BHM-ATL-TPA