Originally Posted by JoeDTW

Seat 2A's terrific quiz is close enough to being completed that I'm launching my MSY quiz.

Someone once said that "You can't say you've been to New Orleans unless you do something there that you regret afterward". When I was there in 2011 for Mardi Gras, I started off drinking Hurricanes at Pat O'Brien's, then switched to Planters Punch at Dickie Brennan's. This seemed like a brilliant idea that evening (doesn't it always?), but I definitely regretted it when I had to get out of bed to puke in the middle of the night.

Hopefully, this quiz will be almost as much fun as sipping a Hurricane on a hot summer evening, with Pat O'Brien's dueling pianos in the background. All questions are based on the July 1, 1977 North American OAG. Some of the flights mentioned in this quiz originate outside the North American OAG's coverage area, but their itineraries are included in the OAG's flight itineraries section.

3. In June, 1975, an Eastern 727-200 enroute from MSY to JFK crashed short of the runway at JFK; most of the passengers and crew aboard perished. Although you didn’t know anyone on the EA 727, you still visit the crash site, and place a lilly on it in honor of the crash victims, and the rescue workers who worked so diligently on site. You are so shaken by your visit that you decide not to fly home on EA, and you decide to take National 495, a 727 that makes 8 (yes, Eight!) enroute stops between JFK and MSY. Name the stops:

Answered: JFK-DCA-ORF-CHS-JAX-TLH-PFN-PNS-MOB-MSY

8. Port au Prince, Haiti also has a strong French heritage. There are not any nonstops or thru flights from PAP to MSY. However, three airlines fly from PAP to MIA, where passengers can connect to NA.

a. XXX-PAP-MIA

b. XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-PAP-MIA

c. XXX-XXX-PAP-MIA, 1x week.

i. A 2nd flight by this airline originates at the 1st stop, with a different aircraft type.

Flights A and C use the same aircraft type.

Route A is a Pan Am 707, SDQ-PAP-MIA

Route B is an Air France 737, FDF-PTP-SXM-SJU-PAP-MIA. Route C is not Air France, Eastern, or Pan Am, and it doesn't use a 727 or 737. One of the two flights uses a 707, the other does not.

9. In 1977, Cancun had yet to become the party zone it would blossom into within a few years, and there are no nonstops from CUN to MSY. However, two airlines fly nonstop from nearby Merida to MSY. Both airlines use the same aircraft type, and both flights originate south of Merida. One flight is a nonstop from its origin to Merida, and the other makes a stop between its origin and Merida. None of the cities other than MSY and MID that the flights serve, are the same. Name the airlines, flight origins, and aircraft type: