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jlemon
2. It's 1962 and you are in Nassau in the Bahamas. You need to travel to Toronto and have found a weekly service that departs every Saturday. One intermediate stop is made en route. What airline will you be flying with? Also name the aircraft type and identify the stop.
6. Now it's 1971 and you are in downtown St. Louis. You have been urgently summoned to a meeting in downtown Chicago and have found a nonstop flight departing from the closest airport to your location which arrives at the closest airport to your destination in downtown Chicago. You will be flying on board a turboprop aircraft that is larger than other equipment operated by commuter air carriers at this time. And you will not be departing from STL or arriving into ORD. Identify the airline, the airport you will depart from, the airport you will arrive into and the aircraft type.
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2. The air carrier was Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA). Here's the sched....
TC 787: Nassau (NAS) 2:30p - 3:55p Tampa (TPA) 4:55p - 9:05p Toronto (YYZ)
Op: Saturdays only
Service classes: F/Y
Meal service: Dinner TPA-YYZ
Equip: Vickers Vanguard
Tampa was the only destination in Florida served by Trans-Canada at this time. TCA was also operating all of its Caribbean services as well as all flights to Nassau and Bermuda with the Vickers Vanguard in the spring of 1962 with destinations including Antigua, Barbados, Kingston, Montego Bay and Port of Spain.
6. The air carrier was Air Mid-America Airlines operating the Convair 600 with two round trip nonstop flights operated on weekdays between Downtown St. Louis Airport (CPS) and Chicago Midway (MDW). The one way CPS-MDW fare was $20.00. Air Mid-America was also serving Champaign/Urbana, IL (CMI) and Springfield, IL (SPI) with the CV-600 at this time. And the three U.S. local service air carriers which operated the Convair 600 were Central Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Trans-Texas/Texas International. In addition, Wright Air Lines operated all of its flights at one point with the CV-600 as well.