Originally Posted by
jlemon
3. In 1959, Continental was operating through plane service twice a day between Houston (HOU) and Los Angeles (LAX), and once a day between Houston and San Francisco (SFO) in conjunction with another airline. Two different aircraft types were flown on this service. Name the other airline and identify both aircraft types as well as the interchange airport where each airline handed off the flights to one another. Also identify the three different routings used by these flights. And for bonus points, what was the marketing name used by both airlines to describe this through plane service?
the interchange carrier was American, the transition point was ELP, and the aircraft were the DC-6 and DC-7
as far as routings ... the CO portion was probably HOU-SAT-ELP; the continuing portions are a bit more complicated because AA served a number of intermediate points across the southwest
I suspect one of the LAX trips was actually a nonstop, while the other served TUS and/or SAN; I'll surmise that the SFO trip stopped in PHX