Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
2. It's 1963 and you are in Aruba. You need to travel to New York City on business and will be flying on an airline that offers connecting service. Your first flight operates five days a week nonstop to your connecting city with the equipment configured with an all-coach single class cabin. The second flight operates nonstop to NYC on a daily basis with a first and coach two class cabin. Both flights operate with different aircraft types. Name the air carrier, the connecting city and both aircraft types. It wasn't VIASA , KLM or Dominicana de Aviacion and the connection was not made in Caracas, Curacao or Santo Domingo. The first flight was operated with a DC-6B and the second flight was operated with a DC-8 arriving into Idlewild.
I must admit that it's nice to have the benefit of all these wrong answers ahead of me, knocking off answers that I might well have provided as well. Given all that's gone down, especially given the knowledge that this is a DC-8 operator, let's go with Trans Caribbean Airways routing the DC-6 to San Juan and then the DC-8 up to Idlewild. My only concern with this answer is that there was a period that TCA operated its DC-8s in an all-Y configuration. Hopefully that wasn't in 1963.
Have to say I had my eye on this one for TCA as well. You may be surprised that they were even known to me, but apart from the fact that they were one of the carriers that took a page for their timetables in the paid Airline Feature Section at the front of the 1960s ABC World Airways Guide (rest of the world's OAG equivalent), they seem to have had one or two DC-8s spare, they had the overwater safety kit installed for JFK-San Juan flights, which most US domestic carriers did not, and they actually did quite a lot of US military charters across to Europe, mainly but not entirely to Frankfurt, and slotted these in with this back loads of commercial charters out of London Gatwick. Hence the all-Y configuration. So they were a regular sight here in London, mainly just heading back to JFK, possibly only in summer, which is low season for the Caribbean.
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Tran...C-8-61/1274052
However did they get the odd flight from San Juan to Aruba ? Pan Am also did San Juan-Curacao-Aruba at the time, with a 727.