Originally Posted by Seat 2A

2. It's 1961 and you are in New York City. You've just finished up work on a project as a consultant and have been invited to visit with friends at their new beach home in Makaha on the western shore of Oahu in Hawaii. This means a flight to Honolulu is in order. You've found a very convenient departure leaving in the late morning which will arrive into HNL before 8:00 pm. This flight operates six days a week and makes three stops en route. Name the air carrier, the three stops in order and the aircraft type. It wasn't United and the flight did not stop at CLE or SFO although it did originate at JFK and stop at ORD. Equipment was a DC8.

It wasn't United but it was a DC-8... Hmmm.... back in 1961, I believe only three airlines served Hawaii from the U.S. - United, Northwest and Pan Am - all of which operated DC-8s. Pan Am is clearly out as its authority was limited to nonstop flights from the West Coast to Hawaii. And if it wasn't United, that leaves Northwest which did indeed operate redtail DC-8-30s for a short time. Now then, as to the routing - if O'Hare wasn't the second stop, then it must've been the first. So perhaps we're looking at JFK-ORD-SEA-PDX-HNL.