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26. (2001) Starting this morning from Tijuana International Airport just south of the U.S. Mexico border, you’ll somehow make it all the way up to Yellowknife, NT before the day is done. For the record, Yellowknife is way up in the Northwest Territory of Canada.
Rather amazingly, only three nonstop flights will be required – each aboard a different airline. Three different aircraft types will also be involved, with two of them having been built by the same manufacturer. So then, you know the drill by now. Please provide us with all the relevant details.
26. Ah, Monty, it appears yours truly needs to return to the drawing board on this one....
So for the first flight from Tijuana to LAX, let's go with an old reliable guess concerning a certain air carrier based in old Mexico: Mexicana operating a 727-200.
And from Los Angeles to Edmonton International, as we know the airline of record was Air Canada, I'll guess the equipment was a 737-200 formerly operated by CP....which I think makes a heck of a lot more sense, aircraft-wise, as the LAX - YEG nonstop route was probably rather thin concerning load factors.
So what about the equipment flown by Canadian North from Edmonton nonstop to Yellowknife? Well, I seem to recall that once upon a time this air carrier operated a rare bird specifically with regard to scheduled services in far northern Canada, being the Fokker 100.