Originally Posted by dliesse
34. (2001) Your journey today from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon will involve three nonstop flights – each of them operated by aircraft built by different manufacturers and all of them operated by the same airline. Identify that airline, the complete routing and the three aircraft types involved.
NOTE: A number of airlines could have potentially qualified for this answer, so research required checking possible routings on each airline to fine the one that met the parameters as detailed above.
Guess I needed a little more of that air I came up for! Don't know what possessed me to write AB3. As for the 764, I didn't remember the exact date of that stinkin' merger (I'm of the opinion that in the history of the planet there has never been a merger that benefitted either the customers or the employees). Let's try this, instead:
ER4 PWM-IAD
763 IAD-ORD
320 ORD-PDX (which is what I meant to say the first time but spaced out)
A good guess, but alas, United doesn't work per the parameters of this question.
So, UA, CO and US are out... As are IAD and ORD
Who could it be? What better time to find out than a lazy Sunday afternoon?
So who else flew to both PWM and PDX in 2001? The obvious answers are AA and DL. Of the two, DL has the more likely possibility of flying aircraft from three different manufacturers, so here's my next attempt:
PWM-CVG DL CRJ
CVG-SLC DL 757
SLC-PDX DL M80