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29 . (1959) Flying between Hong Kong and Mexico City has always been quite an arduous journey, but by early 1959 things are definitely looking up. There’s now a direct two stop through flight, albeit with a change of aircraft enroute at the second stop. Identify the airline, the two enroute stops and the aircraft types involved.
29- I think Canadian Pacific got their DC-8s fairly early, but I don’t think the first deliveries were the long-range variety ... so the jet was probably on the last part of the operation from Vancouver (YVR) to Mexico City (MEX) ... the first part of the flight included a stop at Tokyo (TYO) and would have been operated by a Britannia