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Nov 20, 2017 | 3:25 pm

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Originally Posted by LoveHateRelationship

I am procrastinating at work and decided to look into this.

It looks like Canadian Airlines didn't really use 007 and 008 till 1986. Prior to that it was 401/403 and 402/404. The planes would go Hong Kong-Tokyo-Vancouver then you had a choices of going East across Canada or South to Mexico city all the way down to Buenos Aires. The earliest TPAC flight I could find was 1951 flights 305/306 which flew Hong Kong-Shanghai (refuel)-Tokyo-Shemya(refuel)-Vancouver. The flight to Hong Kong started on Monday at 11AM and arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday at 7AM.

Quite interestingly the schedules read like train schedules of today where a plane stops at multiple destinations on the way. How interesting it would have been to live in those days.

I need to do real work now

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/cp.htm

That's a very interesting web page.

I opened up one of the 1957 schedules and saw it had fares listed as well.

Toronto to Tokyo return in Tourist Class/economy $1076. According to one web site that equates equivalent to $9,373.30 in 2017.

A great reminder of how air fares have dropped over the years.

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