Originally Posted by
jlemon
8. It's still 1969 and you are back in Phoenix. This time you are heading for Calgary. One airline can get you there; however, a connection will be required with the first flight making three stops en route and the second flight making one stop. You will have a quick connecting time of just 37 minutes per this airline's timetable and the same aircraft type will be operated on both flights. Identify the air carrier, the three stops made by the first flight, the connecting airport, the stop made by the second flight and the equipment.
8- the only two carriers that come to mind as serving both PHX and YYC in 1969 are Air West and Western, and I think that the one-stop consideration for the second flight rules out WA, whose YYC service was Electra milk runs up from Denver/DEN and Salt Lake City/SLC ... how about RW DC9s connecting at Seattle/SEA, with the first flight stopping at SLC, San Francisco/SFO, and Portland/PDX and the second at Spokane/GEG
Originally Posted by
jlemon
1979 ... 15. This airline was offering a discounted air fare with "absolutely no restrictions" from New York City to Washington, D.C. for a mere $15.00 at this time. However, on closer inspection, you find this low fare is only offered on one early morning daily nonstop flight. Identify the airline that offered this low fare, the airports the flight in question departed from and arrived into, and the equipment.
15- American had long endeavored to compete with the Eastern Shuttle between LaGuardia/LGA and National/DCA, but by this time they had retired the BAC 1-11 Series 400 and were down to only a handful of 727 flights on the route ... all that said, though, Northwest was operating a JFK-Dulles/IAD-ORD domestic tag on their Chicago-Tokyo 747 flight around that time; I paid something like $39 for IAD-ORD, and the flight left ~0945, so both the schedule and the aforementioned $15 fare for JFK-IAD are entirely believable