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Seat 2A
24. (1973) Once again, the Joint Fare Tariff proves to be a valuable trip planner, this time between Omaha and Phoenix. You’ve found a routing that involves three nonstop flights aboard three airlines, each of them operating the same model and variant of aircraft. Best of all, First Class is offered aboard all three flights. Book it, Danno! First Class all the way! You know the drill by now. Please identify the usual triumvirate of details.
24- I have to think there were only a few possibilities for the initial leg from OMA
STL probably meant too much backtracking, so we’re looking at MCI or DEN via BN or UA respectively (FL probably operated OMA-DEN also, but the only other 737 operator in contention was UA)
from MCI we could logically go to DFW, ICT, ABQ, or DEN … the first three wouldn’t work because there wouldn’t be a way to avoid repeating an airline, so that would give us OMA-MCI-DEN-PHX with CO and WA on the second and third legs respectively, and the equipment of record would have been a 72S
there’s also a logical 72S routing using DEN as the first connection point; I’ll keep that one on hold for now