THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE SOURCED FROM A 1988 POCKET FLIGHT GUIDE
3. The managing partner of your firm has just called to inform that your expertise in contract law is needed in the Baltimore office as soon as possible – as in tomorrow morning at 7:30am please. Well dang! There goes the weekend. Then again, maybe not if you can settle this quickly. A quick check with the firm’s travel agent reveals a one-stop AA flight departing Milwaukee at 6:45pm but then you wouldn’t get into Baltimore until almost 11:00pm. However, if you can leave within the next fifteen minutes you could catch a two-stop flight aboard a fairly new entrant to the Milwaukee aviation community that would get him into BWI before 8:00pm. Better yet, the flight would be aboard an aircraft type that you’ve never flown on before. Identify the airline, the two stops and the aircraft type involved.
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4. It’s two weeks later and once again your services are in demand – this time in Tucson, Arizona. Thankfully it’s Monday and if all goes well you should be home by Thursday. Although there are no nonstop or even direct flights between Milwaukee and Tucson, your travel agent has found an interesting connection involving two twin-engine jets – one of them foreign built, the other American made. Unfortunately no First Class is offered on either of these flights but it’s a quick connection and as an added bonus there are two snacks served enroute. Book it, Danno! Identify the airline, connecting city and aircraft types utilized.
5. You just got a call from an old college roommate to ask if you could make it out to the Grand Opening celebration of his new guitar shop San Francisco. Well sure, why not?! When is it? Saturday evening at 6:00pm. Right on! A quick check of the schedules reveals two airlines offering nonstop service from Kansas City to SFO, one of which offers First Class, the other only coach. You quickly book a First Class seat to San Francisco departing Saturday morning. Identify the airline as well as the aircraft type to be flown.
6. You live in Boca Raton, Florida and one afternoon you come across an ad in your Sunday newspaper’s Travel Section for an airline offering great fares and nonstop flights five times weekly between nearby Ft. Lauderdale and Antigua. Identify the airline and aircraft type the happy couple will be flying upon from Ft. Lauderdale to Antigua.
7. After a relaxing but steamy week in Key West, Florida, you’re looking forward to returning home to the comparative chill of Saint John, New Brunswick. Just to make the return trip more interesting, you’ve worked up an entertaining itinerary from Key West right up the eastern seaboard to Saint John (No crazy zig-zagging to the east or west) involving five airlines operating five different types of jets, none of them American built. Four of the flights are less than 400 miles in length. You’ll take one flight the first day, three the next day and one more on the third day. At one connecting point he’ll have to change airports. Based upon what you know of foreign aircraft types operating in the area at this time (1988) and the airlines that operated them, work out the itinerary along with the airlines and aircraft to be flown.
8. Every now and then it’s nice to do a bit of plane spotting at Miami International Airport. You know of a great spot just off MIA’s Runway 9. You’re especially looking forward to seeing three DC-8-60/70 series (D8S) flights that were listed in the recently expired North American OAG you recently acquired from your local travel agency. Identify the three DC-8-60/70 operators
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10. You live on Maui, Hawaii and need to fly to Montreal. You’ve always loved Lockheed L-1011s and have worked out a four flight routing all on L-1011s following a fairly direct route (no geographically erratic zig-zagging) utilizing the services of four different airlines. Your first day will involve three flights and a couple of 5 to 6 hour layovers. The next day you’ll fly nonstop to Montreal. Identify the routing and the four airlines to be flown upon.
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