Originally Posted by
jlemon
11. And your business travel continues....you are now in Pittsburgh and must travel to Portland, Oregon. There's a daily direct flight departing PIT at 8:10 am which arrives into PDX at 12:45 pm. Two intermediate stops will be made en route and first class is available. Identify the air carrier, the equipment and both stops in order.
Originally Posted by
jrl767
11- United is far too obvious; Continental was still a presence in Denver but I don’t recall them at PIT; TWA only served PDX from Seattle as a tag on their evening JFK flight; the timing seems to rule out a routing via Dallas and SEA, which takes American out of the equation (and BN wasn’t operating PIT-DFW) ... if we were looking for three stops I could perhaps envision Northwest or Republic
that leaves Eastern ... how about a 727-100 via Atlanta (ATL) and St. Louis (STL)
It wasn't Eastern, the aircraft wasn't a B727-100 and stops were not made at ATL or STL
11- mumble mumble
awright, since this is turning into a guessing game, I'll go back to UA ... a D8S over Denver (DEN) and SEA
Originally Posted by
jlemon
10. Another day, another meeting to attend. You are in Phoenix and the meeting is in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. You've found a daily direct flight from PHX to the closest airport to Perth Amboy. One stop will be made en route. Name the airline, the aircraft type, the stop and the airport you will arrive into.
10- unless I'm misreading googlemaps, Newark (EWR) is the closest airport to Perth Amboy, so this is another one where it's largely a guessing game as to the airline/stop you're looking for ... I can come up with a bunch of options, viz:
- AA via Chicago (ORD) or Dallas (DFW)
- BN via DFW
- CO via Denver (DEN) or Houston (IAH)
- DL via Atlanta (ATL)
- TW via ORD or St Louis (STL)
- UA via DEN or ORD
so maybe we're looking for the "rare bird" --
i.e., the least common equipment
- AA/TW flew a lot of 727s and 707s of all sizes/variants, so I think a strange routing (i.e., AA via IAD/PHL, or TW via MCI/PIT) would be the only way either of these would qualify
- BN was all 727/72S except for a couple oddball DC8/D8S trips (we recently discussed SAT-TUS-LAS or something like that)
- CO concentrated on the 72S and DC-10 but they had a handful of 727-100s
- DL/UA were big D8S operators in addition to their 72S fleet, and UA also had plenty of 727-100s
surprisingly,
jlemon makes no mention of First Class, but I'm gonna guess that was just an oversight ... CO 727-24 via DEN