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Feb 13, 2026 | 7:39 pm

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Originally Posted by dliesse

11. (1992) You're flying from Minneapolis to Ponce, Puerto Rico. You’re about to board the first of two all-economy configured aircraft, each operated by a different airline, which will fly you to Ponce today. Each flight will make one enroute stop. And, each flight will be operated by the exact same type of jet (i.e. make and variant) So – please identify both airlines, the complete routing, and the aircraft type common to both flights.

dliesse has correctly identified the 727-200 as the aircraft of record. Since then however, we know Carnival operated the final leg into PSE. Sun Country, Kiwi International and ATA are removed from further consideration. Will someone please help dliesse out with the missing all-Y 72S operator? Don't make me call jlemon! 😱

Okay, Arrow Air is very close alphabetically but Atlas isn't far enough away. At least I'm headed in the right direction.

However, there are a lack of 72S operators at all, let alone all-economy, meeting the criteria. I think we're looking at different definitions of "very close"!

But there is one more possibility that might make the grade, though I have no idea what their route structure was for their short existence. How about Braniff (as in Braniff III)?

Whew! Thank goodness we didn't have to call jlemon!

Braniff III is Correct! and the final itinerary looked like this -

Braniff BE 131 Minneapolis (MSP) 700a – 810a Chicago (MDW) 840a – 1130a Newark (EWR) 727-200
Carnival KX 126 Newark (EWR) 200p – 555p L Aguadilla (BQN) 630p - 700p Ponce (PSE) 727-200 Tu Th Sa

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