Originally Posted by
Track
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.
”RTW” meaning “basically in the same direction” … as we have seen, the itinerary to LYS traversed both the Pacific and Atlantic, so the return from NCE traverses the Asian mainland
Originally Posted by
Track
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)
you’re actually not too far off here
- CDG is INCORRECT, AF is INCORRECT, CVL is INCORRECT (hint — it was a wide-body jet)
- BKK is INCORRECT, HKG is CORRECT, 747 is CORRECT (the actual connecting point was HKG)
- OSA is INCORRECT, SPN is CORRECT
- CO is INCORRECT, 72S is close enough (the aircraft of record was a 727-100)