Originally Posted by
jlemon
4. In 1958, this airline was operating a daily round trip service it called "The Southernaire" from the New York City area. This flight operated nonstop to a city in the southern U.S. and then continued on to another southern U.S. city where the aircraft then remained overnight (RON). The service then departed northbound the next morning on a reverse routing back to New York. Identify the air carrier, the airport served by this flight in the New York area, the two cities it served in the south and the aircraft type.
4- in mentally revisiting similar questions about “named” flights of this era, I can only associate a few airlines with the practice, and one of those (United) wasn’t flying to any southern states from NYC ... “Southernaire” doesn’t sound like anything that National would have chosen (iirc they favored monikers like “Flamingo”), so I’m going to guess that the operator was Capital Airlines ... which certainly implies that the aircraft was a Viscount
as for the route, perhaps Newark (EWR) - Birmingham (BHM) - New Orleans (MSY)