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Originally Posted by
jlemon
41. You're in San Francisco and are headed down to Los Angeles. It's a beautiful day for flying so you are looking forward to this hopefully scenic flight which means you've booked window seat 3F ahead of the wing. This flight will also make two stops en route from SFO to LAX. Name the airline, both stops and the equipment.
41- I have always thought that scenic flights -- especially multi-stop ones -- are much more scenic at 21000 feet in a turboprop than at 31000 feet in a jet, so on that basis I'll offer that
jlemon is of a similar mindset, and that the flight in question is a Hughes AirWest Fairchild F-27 stopping at Monterey/MRY and Santa Maria/SMX
Originally Posted by
jlemon
43. (1979)... Three airlines were operating nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Miami at this time. All three air carriers operated wide body equipment on their respective services; however one of the three was also operating a narrow body aircraft type on one of its flights. Name this airline and the narrow body aircraft type.
43- this was right around the time that Pan Am and National were in their merger talks that concluded with PA's acquisition of NA in early 1980 ... NA was definitely operating LAX-MIA with DC-10s; while PA still had 707s in the fleet, I'm pretty sure they were almost exclusively on Caribbean routes, which means they would have been running a 747 ... as for other carriers in the market, I think both American and Eastern entered after the merger, but both operated wide-body jets ... that leaves Western, and it wouldn't surprise me if they augmented DC-10 service with a perhaps-less-than-daily 707-347