Originally Posted by
jrl767
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
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
8. An excellent guess as it indeed was Air West operating DC9-10 equipment on both flights. The first flight made its first stop in Salt Lake City and its third stop in Portland while the second flight stopped in Spokane. However, the second stop made by the first flight wasn't SFO and the connection was not made at SEA.
15. Ah, it wasn't Northwest, the flight did not depart from JFK and the equipment in question wasn't a 747. But on the plus side of the column, the flight we are looking for did arrive into IAD.