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Old Sep 2, 2020, 12:45 pm
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And we're off with a great new set of questions from jlemon!

1.
In 1962, North Central Airlines was serving two airports in Canada. Name them both.

It seems a bit early for Toronto, so I'm thinking Sault St. Marie and Thunder Bay, served with the Convair 440 (or maybe they'd been converted to 580s by then...)


6. In 1971, Western Airlines was working "vigorously" to obtain CAB approval for a merger with another air carrier. Ultimately, this effort proved to be unsuccessful. What airline was Western attempting to merge with?

I believe a variant on this question came up earlier in our history. It was too early for Air Florida and if I remember correctly, the airline of record was American. Back then, it seems the CAB was reluctant to approve most any mergers between major airlines on anti-competitive grounds, often backed by a howls of protest from all of the other airlines.
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