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Jul 20, 2019, 12:59 am

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Originally Posted by jlemon

8. (1982) The Canadian rock band Rush is playing next weekend in Calgary and you’re excited to have scored two fourth row tickets to the concert. Although there are no nonstop flights between your home airport in Portland, Oregon and Calgary, you figure you’ll fly up to Vancouver and connect to Calgary from there. Alas, you can’t find anything but First Class seats between YVR and YYC. No way, man… that’s too much money. Hmm… what’s this? Well how ‘bout that?! There’s a daily three stop direct flight between Portland and Calgary that has two seats available at a fairly reasonable fare. Identify the airline, aircraft and the three enroute stops.

Well then.......it was "The Only Way To Fly" but the service wasn't flown a 73S operating PDX-SFO-SLC-GTF-YYC.....

Guess we better upgrade to First Class on board a Western B727-200 with a "western U.S. grand tour" routing of Portland - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Denver - Calgary. And who was the opening act for "Rush"?

Correct! This is my kind of routing, but given the geographical distance covered it's surprising that it showed up as a marketable flight on the Portland -Calgary schedule. Here's the schedule:

Western 302 Portland (PDX) 745a-958a B Los Angeles (LAX) 1040a-1145a Phoenix (PHX) 1215p-250p L Denver (DEN) 335p-550p Calgary (YYC) 727-200 Daily

As for the opening act for "Rush", I'm thinking it might've been those hosers The McKenzie Brothers

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