Originally Posted by
jrl767
time to help our intrepid consultant, who has finished cycling along the Côte d’Azur, to get back to the work site
1983(b)- The first of your three flights back to Guam departs on Thursday afternoon. Since you nearly missed the interline connection to the long-haul flight on the outbound trip, you’ve decided to backtrack a bit to facilitate an online connection to the long flight on your return journey.
This trip also involves three different aircraft types; you have 1+20 for the online connection and 5+15 for the interline connection. One of the flights is a nonstop, one makes one stop, and one makes two stops. One airport and one aircraft type are repeats from your outbound itinerary.
We’re looking for the major airport from which you’ll depart, both connecting airports, and of course the airline, equipment, and intermediate stop/s for each flight.
I have a bit of a problem with your understanding of the terms "RTW" and "transverses Asia" in post 26148. And then there's the problem of stopping at Saipan but excluding NRT. Since flying from Guam to Marseille involved flying via Anchorage, RTW for me would require returning via the western hemisphere, but that makes a stop at Saipan difficult, as flights from the U.S. to Guam (PA and CO) went via Honolulu and didn't serve Saipan. So I think you consider the NRT-ANC-AMS flight as including the western hemisphere (with ANC technically yes) and a return via Asia permissible. so we have AF or LH or BA from Nice non-stop to a western European city and an Asian city one-stop (Saipan) to Guam at the other end. That leaves Europe-Asia with two stops in the middle and with many possibilities. I offer:
Nice-CDG in an AF Caravelle
CDG-Bangkok-Hong Kong-Osaka in an AF 747-200 (could just as well have been to Seoul or Manila)
Osaka-Saipan [the one common plane and city with 1983 (a)] -Guam in a CO 727-200 (I don't know that CO flew to Osaka in 1983, but whatever)