Originally Posted by Herb687

1. (1973) Lucky you! You’ve been picked to be your company’s lead sales rep at this year’s Household Appliance convention being held this year in sunny Tucson, Arizona. Although there are no nonstop or direct flights between your home base of Vancouver, BC and Tucson, you’ve found and intriguing itinerary involving three nonstop flights aboard three different airlines, each operating aircraft built in the same state. One of the aircraft is a widebody. Identify the routing, the three airlines and the three equipment types.

CP 737 YVR-SFO already identified as correct for first segment
TW 747 SFO-PHX (NW/PS/RW already eliminated and LAX/SAN already eliminated)
AA 72S PHX-TUS

In past quizzes we've taken the practice of acknowledging whether an airline or aircraft is part of the answer even if per the response provided it was in the wrong place. To wit, the 747 running SFO-PHX is correct, but it was not TWA. American is part of this routing, but not on the third leg. Well d'uh! Gee Tennessee, it must be the second leg, which means AA's running the 747! You see the problem here - mainly that you guys are way too smart for those of us coming up with these questions to be giving so much away, especially when in an instance like this AA was incorrectly included as the operator of the third leg. Could be it's just unavoidable though. I'll have to think on it with regard to the next batch of questions.

As for this one, we're down to identifying the 727-200 operator between PHX and TUS. Serious tap in country, me thinks!

11. (1973) From the beaches of the Caribbean to the shores of Lake Louise, you couldn’t be more excited about your upcoming trip from Miami to Calgary. Your first flight out of Miami will make one enroute stop to the connection point where you’ll board a nonstop flight to Calgary. Two dinners will be served enroute and both airlines will be operating the same model of aircraft. Hmm… 1973… Can you recall what two airlines, aircraft type and routing might meet these parameters? Go for it!

Wardair 747 MIA-YUL-YYZ
CP 747 YYZ-YYC

I'd love to have flown this routing. However, I'm pretty certain Wardair was not running scheduled services in 1973. Charter only. Additionally, CP Air didn't take delivery of its first 747-200 until November 1973 and over the first few months its first two saw service from YVR and YYZ on flagship routes to Asia and Europe, as well as YYZ-YVR. Calgary's first scheduled 747 flights came with Air Canada nonstops to London on June 27, 1974.

Getting back to our question, here's a coupla hints: The connection point was not in Canada and the itinerary did not involve any Canadian airlines.