Awright - enough of them stuffy older planes! Turns out there's some google translating service that'll identify the description of 'em all anyway. Some good pictures though - in many ways travel was a lot more civilized in those days. At the same time turbulence impacted flights a great deal more severely back then and all was not always so comfortably pleasant as it's depicted in those photos.

By the way, I'd better close out this question from the last batch:

21. I’ve found three U.S. airlines that still operate scheduled flights with the Lockheed Electra in 1976. Although each airline operates in different parts of the country, a common thread connects each of these airlines’ flights. Can you identify the three airlines and the similarity in their flights?

WHBM correctly identified Reeve Aleutian as one of the airlines and - had I not incorrectly listed the operations date as 1986 - I've every confidence that he would have easily identified the other two airlines in short order. Those airlines are Air Florida and PSA. The similarity in their flights was that all were intra-state operations. Some years later I believe Reeve operated scheduled service between Cold Bay, Alaska and Seattle with its Electras.


So - here's a batch of comparatively easy schedule based questions to tide anyone so interested over until next Thursday. At that point I'll be boarding a shiny Alaska Airlines jet and winging my way south to the Golden State where - amongst other things - I'll hook up with jrl767 for a quick visit at the Southern California Airline Memorabilia Show. I won't return home until February 9th, so my participation in this little enterprise of ours will be severely curtailed. jlemon will be similarly indisposed until early February. Now's the perfect opportunity for someone else to take up the reins and present a few questions of their own. Go for it!


The following six questions are based upon schedules published in a pocket OAG from autumn 1977

1. Identify all of the U.S. airlines operating scheduled flights with the DC-9-10 in 1977

2. Of those airlines, which offered First Class aboard the DC-9-10 in 1977?

3. What was the longest scheduled flight within the continental U.S. being flown with the 727-100? We’re looking for route and airline.

4. You want to fly aboard the only daily Convair 580 departing San Francisco in late 1977. Identify the airline and the route you’ll be flying. A N S W E R E D

5. Identify all of the U.S. airlines serving Toronto in late 1977

6. Based upon total length – not passenger capacity – what was the longest airliner flying scheduled flights out of Tucson, Arizona in late 1977?

The following six questions are based upon schedules published in a pocket OAG from late 1988

7. These days only Jet Blue serves Worcester, MA with jets. Back in late 1988 there were four airlines doing so. Identify those four airlines and – if you feel up to it – the jets they operated into ORH.

8. If you lived in Yakima, WA in late 1988, only one airline offered jet service to your airport. Identify the airline and the aircraft used. If you like, you may also have a guess at which city those jets flew to.

9. It used to be that only Eastern Airlines flew into Canada’s capitol city of Ottawa from Syracuse and New York City. In late 1988 the only EA flight into YOW is from Baltimore. A different airline now serves the SYR-YOW route while yet another airline serves the JFK-YOW route. Identify each of these airlines and – if you like – the aircraft utilized on each service.

10. Four airlines served the Anchorage to Seattle market with a total of 14 daily and 2 daily except Saturday flights. Identify the airlines and what was similar about all 16 flights.

11. Two airlines offered nonstop service between the U.S. and Mexico with the Convair 580. Identify both airlines and the single international route each served.

12. When I think of Sioux Falls, South Dakota I think of Western Airlines Electras and 720Bs. In 1988 Western is gone, as are the Electra and 720B from South Dakota skies. Now we’re looking to identify the two airlines that – as of late 1988 – were operating DC-9-10s into Sioux Falls. Are you up for it?