Originally Posted by WHBM

24. (1974) You need to get from Victoria, British Columbia to Veracruz, Mexico. Today's trip will involve three airlines, with the first two flights being nonstops, connecting to a one stop flight into VeraCruz. As to be expected, three different aircraft will be involved, each built by a different manufacturer. Your job is to identify each of the three airlines, the complete routing, and the three aircraft types.

Shot at this maybe. Victoria didn't have a lot of schedules, but Pacific Western ran to Vancouver with their Convair 640, that's the type re-engined with Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops. Getting down to Mexico then on a Douglas DC8-63 of CP Air, in their strident orange and red livery. That's Douglas taken care of, and as Aeromexico only had Douglas jets we'll have to go with Mexicana and a 727-200 off to Vera Cruz.

An excellent submission, and one of the very first that I investigated for this route. CP did indeed run its Empress DC-8s down to Mexico City and beyond from Vancouver. Unfortunately, they departed YVR in the mid-afternoon and due to their late arrival into MEX did not connect with any same day flights into Veracruz.

That said, PW and its Convair 640 are correct for the first flight, however the flight from Victoria did not go to YVR as there was no well timed flight from there to connect to the third one stop flight into Veracruz.

Additionally, although no DC-8s were involved in this trip, a Boeing 727 was. It did not belong to Mexicana, though...

So, we've got a couple things to work with here. All the best with your next response