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You’ve got a one week vacation coming up – what better way to spend it that flying from New Orleans to Anchorage, Alaska! Once you get there, maybe you’ll come back – maybe you won’t. In any event, a thorough perusal of your trusty OAG has allowed you to come up with a fantastic itinerary that will allow you to fly exclusively aboard a jet aircraft type that in 1966 was operated by eight U.S. airlines. You’ll get to fly aboard that same aircraft type on each of those eight flights with each flight going nonstop in a west or north-northwesterly direction from New Orleans all the way up to Alaska. I’ve provided some hints as to which state each airport will be located in. Your job is to fill in the blanks below with the correct city and airline. Are you up to it?
DAY ONE:
New Orleans to _____________, Texas ~ Dept. 12:50p Arrive 1:45p Airline:______________
EA 63 S
_____________, Texas to _____________, Texas ~ Dept. 6:40p Arrive 7:30p Airline:______________
BN 86
_____________, Texas to _____________, Texas ~ Dept. 11:00p Arrive 11:23p Airline:_____________
AA 41
DAY TWO:
_____________, Texas to ____________, Calif. ~ Dept. 9:10a Arrive 10:50a Airline:______________
CO 65 S
_____________, Calif. to _____________, Calif. ~ Dept. 1:25p Arrive 2:23p Airline:______________
UA 73 L
_____________, Calif. to _____________, Ore. ~ Dept. 3:55p Arrive 5:16p Airline:______________
WA 640
_____________, Ore. to _____________, Wash. ~ Dept. 9:25p Arrive 9:58p Airline:______________
NW 30
DAY THREE
_____________, Wash. to ____________, Alaska ~ Dept. 7:25a Arrive 7:20a Airline:____________
PN 725 B
************************************************** ************************************************** ****************************Let’s try a Boeing 720/720B over a slightly revised itinerary:
MSY-HOU: Eastern
✓
HOU-Dallas (DAL): Braniff
✓
DAL-El Paso (ELP): American
✓
ELP-LAX: Continental
✓
LAX-SFO: Western
This should be United
SFO-PDX: United
This should be Western
PDX-SEA: Northwest
✓
SEA-ANC: Pacific Northern
✓************************************************** ************************************************** ******
GREAT JOB,
J! ^ You've correctly identified Boeing's 720 and matched the correct airline to the correct routing in every case except LAX-SFO-PDX which I'll give you anyway because both airlines operated 720s over both routes and it really could've gone either way. I've placed the actual airline and flight number along side each route in boldface type.