I will be heading overseas in about four weeks, but that should be enough time to resubmit a couple of unanswered, abandoned or incomplete questions from my last batch, plus a couple of hitherto unsubmitted general knowledge type queries. As always, please be respectful of your fellow participants and limit your responses to two per day.


1. What was the first ever Boeing jet to appear on the Canadian registry?
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2. When did.Southwest Airlines operate its first scheduled transcontinental flight? What was the route and aircraft type?

3. Without looking it up online, please match the launch operator with the following variants of the MD-80
MD81
MD82
MD83
MD87
MD88
Please see post #29035

4. (1992) Being stationed in the Seychelles Islands over the past two years has been a dream come true, but as the saying goes, all good things must eventually come to an end. That said, if you must leave the Seychelles, there are worse places to be reassigned than to the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. On the other hand, getting there could be a real nightmare. You are delighted then to discover that on one day a week, doing so is quite easy and convenient, involving just two flights – the first a nonstop to the connection point followed by a one stop direct flight to Honolulu. Two different aircraft types will be involved and thankfully, seats are available in the forward cabins of both aircraft – though in different classes. Please identify the airlines, the routing, the aircraft types and the classes of travel associated with each airline.

5. This U.S. airline, which currently serves 45 destinations from coast to coast with a fleet that includes two different twin jets, is headquartered in Utah. Which airline is this?
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6. What was the first airline to operate an ETOPS certified 737-200? What route did it fly?

7. (1992) Oh yeah! You are SO looking forward to leaving the cold and snow of Calgary behind and exchanging it for a week of sunshine and luaus at your brother’s place in Honolulu. You’ll depart Calgary in the morning on the first of three nonstop flights for your trip to the islands. Two connections and three airlines will be involved, with each airline operating a different type of aircraft. Each of the aircraft has a different engine configuration. Please identify the three airlines, the routing flown and the aircraft types.

9. Everybody knows that a BOAC Comet made the 1st commercial transatlantic jet flight from London to New York in 1958. Besides New York’s Idylwild/John F. Kennedy International airport, name six other U.S. airports that saw scheduled service with the Comet

10.Which airline named its first 747 after the first man on the moon?11. What was the first airline to use regional jets in North America?

12. In terms of land area, this airport is the largest in North America, and the second largest in the world. Which airport is this?

13. Can you list – in order – the first five airlines to receive Boeing’s 747?

14. The 737-MAX9 was in the news in January after the blowout of an unused emergency exit - known as a door plug, aboard an Alaska Airlines jet. This door is designed for use with high density configurations, such as you'd see with Indonesia's Lion Air MAX9s. Alaska does not operate its MAX9s in a high density configuration, but if and when it eventually sells its MAX9s, should the next operator desire a high density seating configuration, the door is already there and ready to be "unplugged".

Back in the 1970s, one US airline operated some of its 727-200s in a high density configuration seating 189 passengers. These 727s could be identified by an extra exit between the forward passenger door and the overwing exits to meet FAA requirements. Which US airline was this?