Originally Posted by
jlemon
And here's a bonus quiz item.....
At one point, SouthCentral Air operated code sharing service for an airline that was flying jet equipment. Besides Anchorage-Kenai, two other routes were flown by SouthCentral via this code share agreement. Identify the air carrier and the two other routes.
I'll go ahead and provide the answer for the above.......
The year was 1987 and the air carrier in question was Western Airlines with SouthCentral Air operating Western Express service between Anchorage and Kenai (ENA), Homer (HOM) and Soldotna (SXQ). I believe SouthCentral was operating Piper Chieftain light twin aircraft on its Western Express service in 1987. WA was operating nonstop service between ANC and FAI, HNL, PDX, SEA and SLC as well as one stop service between ANC and LAX and SFO at this time. Their primary aircraft type used to serve Anchorage in the spring of 1987 was the B727-200 although one of the nonstops to SLC was operated with a B737-300. The DC-10 was used for the nonstop service to Honolulu which was operated five days a week.
And there was another commuter air carrier flying Western Express service at this time as well: SkyWest which was operating in the western U.S.with Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia and Swearingen Metro equipment with feeder service to and from LAX and SLC for WA as well as point to point flights. Western was soon to be merged into Delta which apparently did not continue a code sharing relationship with SouthCentral but did so with SkyWest as the latter became a Delta Connection carrier (and still is, of course).