Originally Posted by dliesse

23. (1992) This week’s sales trip takes you from Seattle to Cedar Rapids. Normally, United could handle this itinerary via a single connection in Denver, but alas, United’s flight into CID is sold out. Thankfully, your travel agent has found you a two flight itinerary, with both flights on the same airline. The first flight will be nonstop, but the second will make two enroute stops. And, get this! Both flights will be aboard the same exact type of aircraft. You all know the drill by now. Please provide the usual info.

This one feels like a gimme, which means I'm probably way out in left field (and thinking of schedules 10 years earlier). How about the airline being America West, the aircraft a 737-200, connecting point PHX, and the two stops OMA and DSM?

Pretty close there, D. America West is indeed the carrier of record, although the connection was not made at PHX. Additionally, the aircraft was not a -200, which means it had to've been a -
Phoenix may not have been the connection airport, but it is however one of the stops on the two-stopper flight into CID.
However, neither OMA nor DSM were stopped at.

I wouldn't call this a deeply flawed set of questions, just ultra challenging!

Flawed in that some of the questions were too convoluted - in both description and overall routing - which contributed to overall apathy in response