Originally Posted by
JoeDTW
One last hint about the final city EA served from DTW in 1977: EA's Jan 10, 1976 timetable says EA flew nonstop from the missing city to 23 other cities. However, none of EA's flights out of the missing city were on L-1011 Whisperliners. Although DL was much smaller than EA at the missing city, DL did serve this city with L-1011s on a regular basis in the 1970s.
in addition to GSO, Eastern had rather substantial operations at both Raleigh/Durham (RDU) and Charlotte (CLT) in the mid 1970s (
Dec 1976 route map)… absent both of those, I have no other ideas
Last edited by jrl767; Jun 19, 2021 at 11:39 am
Reason: add link to route map