Originally Posted by jrl767

17. Ever since you joined Ford Motor Company back in 1969, it seems like most of your life is on the road. This week you’ll depart Detroit on Monday afternoon for a Tuesday meeting with a dealership in Toronto. The next day it’s on to Philadelphia to meet with a supplier before finally returning home to Detroit on Thursday evening. Two cities, three nonstop flights DTW-YYZ-PHL-DTW. Based upon the following clues, can you determine the airlines flown and the single aircraft type flown?

• You’ll fly a different airline on each route, always in First Class.
• On two of the routes, the airline you’re flying on is the only one to offer First Class on that route.
• On each flight you’ll be flying upon the same type of airplane.

I know that YYZ-PHL featured a "rare bird" -- an Air Jamaica DC-8 -- so that would make United a logical choice for PHL-DTW ... Air Canada and Canadian Pacific / CP Air are both too obvious for DTW-YYZ, and I think most if not all of the transatlantic Fifth Freedom operators had gone to widebody jets by this time, so I'll go with Aeronaves de Mexico / Aeromexico

Dang! Somebody ate their Wheaties today! ^ You are 100% spot on, J. Here's the schedule:

AeroMexico AM 432 Detroit (DTW) 315p-405p Toronto (YYZ) DC-8-50 Daily
Air Jamaica JM 040 Toronto (YYZ) 915a-1030a Philadelphia (PHL) DC-8-50 Snack Daily
United UA 875 Philadelphia (PHL) 615p-747p Detroit (DTW) DC-8-50 Dinner Daily

22. Lucky you! You need to fly from Acapulco to Papeete, Tahiti to deliver a yacht to Rarotonga. There is a nonstop flight but unfortunately the next one won’t be departing ACA until Saturday night. However, it appears you can make a single connection involving two nonstop flights. You’ll depart Acapulco on Friday afternoon, have a 3 ½ hour layover at the connecting point and arrive Papeete at a little after 2:00am. Two airlines will be involved, each airline operating the same type of aircraft. Can you identify each airline, the connecting point and the aircraft type?

Let's try Western with a Boeing 720B to Los Angeles, and UTA with a DC-10 to Papeete

We're looking for two airlines (neither of which are WA or UT) but most importantly, they're both operating the same type of equipment on each flight. Please, guess again!