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Seat 2A
35. (1965) You and your wife are off to the Windy City to attend your son’s graduation from DePaul University. From your home outside Elmira, New York you’re pleased to discover that there’s a single daily two stop direct flight departing Elmira each afternoon and arriving in Chicago in time for dinner with The Kid. Identify the airline, aircraft and the two enroute stops.
I always thought that Elmira was just a Mohawk station, having tracked from a 1960s ABC Guide what they did with their One-Elevens, and found all sorts of place names I'd never heard of before - like this one. But Mohawk never got as far as Chicago, nor did near-neighbour Allegheny then, so it has to be a mainstream line that gave it up. I'll play another hunch that this used to be Capital Airlines territory. By 1965 they were rolled into United, so, likely with a onetime Capital Viscount, lets say Elmira-Rochester-Buffalo-Chicago.