Originally Posted by jrl767

12.1974) It’s been fun working at the nation’s smallest National Park over the past twelve years, but when an opportunity arises to become the Assistant Superintendant of the Oldest National Park in the country, you jump rather vigorously at the chance.

Rather amazingly, you’ll be able to make the entire journey between the two parks on the same airline. Rather distressingly, it’ll take you most of the day. Your first flight will make no less than SEVEN enroute stops to your connection

Seven Stops? Some historical research reveals that the oldest National Park is Yellowstone, which means the nearest destination airport is West Yellowstone/WYS

today’s smallest national park (Gateway Arch, in St. Louis) wasn't yet established in 1962, so the site in question was Hot Springs National Park … and conveniently the closest airport was right there in the namesake town

Those two details point to the aircraft of record being a Frontier Convair 580, the connection point being Denver/DEN, and the stop on the second flight being Jackson Hole/JAC

as for the seven stops:

Little Rock (LIT)
Fort Smith (FSM)
Tulsa (TUL)
Oklahoma City (OKC)
Wichita (ICT)
Liberal (LBL)
Colorado Springs (COS)


Well now, you're off to a quite a good start. You've got the parks, the airline, the aircraft and the connection airport (D'uh!) right, but the flight did not stop at LIT (the next three stops are right, though) and then you veered off the taxiway after OKC. However, COS is correct, as is JAC.

So, we're looking for three additional stops between OKC and COS. Go get 'em!


(1974)Valdosta, GA to Victoria, BC? Are you kidding me? Why do you always seem to get stuck with these far flung sales calls? Who knows? Who cares? You’ve still gotta do it.

Awright then…

Your first flight will depart Valdosta at the ungodly hour of 605am! It’ll make two stops enroute to your first connection airport. Your second flight – on a different airline – will make two stops enroute to the second connection point where you’ll board a mercifully nonstop flight – aboard yet another airline – to your third connection point, where finally you’ll board a fourth airline nonstop to Victoria. Yay!!

Four different aircraft will be involved, each built by a different manufacturer. By now, you know what we're looking for here. So git to it!


Well now! this is certainly an exercise in memory bank withdrawals!

let’s start with a Southern Airways Martin 404 that will take our long-suffering traveler to Atlanta/ATL, with stops at Albany/ABY and Columbus/CSG

for the next leg, how about a Delta DC-9-30 to Dallas/DFW … there are more than a few two-stop routings here, so I’ll start with a guess of Jackson/JAN and Shreveport/SHV

then DFW to Seattle/SEA on a Braniff 727-227, and finally a Pacific Western Convair 640 SEA-YYJ

I remember checking Dallas on this one, thinking much along the same lines as you, but the two-stop flights didn't match up well with the SO arrival (minimum connecting time issue on the first, too long of a layover on the next) so Dallas was out, and by extension so too are all the connecting cities you listed between ATL and DFW. Also, neither Delta nor the DC-9 are involved in the correct answer.

Let's get back to the start though. Southern Airways and the Martin 404 are Correct! as is Columbus as the second stop. However, the first stop was not Albany.

Seattle is involved in this itinerary as a connection airport, as is on more as yet unidentified connection airport.

Pacific Western flying a Convair into Victoria is Correct!, but not from Seattle.

Awright then - you got plenty to work with here. Good luck!