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Old Mar 17, 2014 | 3:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Seat 2A
Originally Posted by Seat 2A
...SPRING OF 1966 ... 3. Eight airlines operated DC-6 passenger flights into Miami. Can you name at least six of them? ...
Originally Posted by jrl767
... the easy candidates are Delta, National, Northeast, and United

as for others, how about Panagra, Panair do Brasil, Aviateca (Guatemala), and Ecuatoriana

actually Pan Am is probably in there as well
Well, you've got two of them! As for the U.S. carriers, from what I can see of the available schedules, Delta used to operate a DC-7 milkrun down from Atlanta but its DC-6s were by then relegated to smaller cities north of Florida. National had retired its DC-6s by then, United was all jet into Miami (720 and 727) and Northeast's props stayed north of Washington DC. Pan American was all-jet with 707s and 727s and possibly 720s serving Caribbean and South American destinations. Panagra had retired its DC-6s by then and Panair was shut down in 1965.

That leaves Aviateca and Ecuatoriana. Two down, six to go!
continuing the Latin American guesses: Aeronaves de Mexico, LACSA (Costa Rica), LAN Chile, and Mexicana might be among the DC-6 operators into MIA in 1966 ...
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