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What fun! You’ve just received a call from jlemon to join him and three friends on a sailing trip from Aruba to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. From your home in Wilmington, Delaware you could fly out of either New York or Washington, DC as both airports are essentially equidistant from your home and accessible by train. You settle for a well timed departure out of JFK aboard a new airline that offers affordable 1 stop flights each Saturday and Sunday to Aruba. Breakfast and lunch will be served enroute. Identify the airline, aircraft and enroute stop please.
Per Seat 2A: Think about the two other airlines operating scheduled flights with all-First Class configured 727-100s. Neither of them lasted very long. Both airlines have been the subject of earlier questions here at the OTAQ&D... but so far as I know the airline representing the correct answer to this question never has
Per jrl767: Well, those two all-F 727 operators I believe would have been McClain and Air One ... as far as this question goes, though,
surely we've mentioned ALM in the 15000-plus posts :/
Per jlemon: Hmmmm....what
was that new start up airline our intrepid traveler flew down on? And could the B727-100 aircraft have possibly been formerly operated by Air 1?
Per Seat 2A: McClain and Air One are indeed the airlines I referenced operating scheduled flights with all-First Class configured 727-100s. So far as I know, ALM never operated 727s. Air Aruba did, but they're not the airline we're looking for. The aircraft in question was not previously operated by Air 1. That leaves McClain. So then, we know that one of this airlines' 727-100s was previously operated by McClain, and wore McClain's livery but with the titles of the airline in question. This airline also operated other 727-100s in a different livery. It filed for bankruptcy in early 1988. What airline could it have been?