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Old Sep 15, 2023 | 8:26 am
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Originally Posted by Seat 2A
Here's another one to ponder...In the course of researching something entirely different, I stumbled across a thread on airliners.net where a number of posters claimed to clearly remember Western and Northwest operating 727-100s in revenue service between the West Coast and Hawaii. Yeah, right. Finally, the person asserting that WA did so recanted, claiming that he’d meant the 720Bs. The guy promoting NW never did change his tune though many other posters claimed they could find no evidence of any US airline other than CO’s Air Micronesia operating 727-100s (or -200s) into Honolulu. One person even claimed Delta operated 727s to HNL after its acquisition of WA. What are these guys smoking?!!

While I agree that CO’s Air Mike was the only U.S. operator of scheduled 727 services into HNL, unacknowledged on the airliners.net thread were the scheduled 727-100 operations into HNL of another carrier not from the U.S. Identify that airline and where it flew into Honolulu from.
Well, whatever it is, it's probably offered for sale at the Telluride Bud Company....

And I'll guess the air carrier in question was Air Tungaru operating a 727-100 on a routing of Tarawa - Christmas Island - Honolulu.
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