Old Timer's Airline Quiz and Discussion.
Sep 17, 2019, 10:44 am
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BU 574: Newcastle (NCL) 10:25 - 12:35 Stavanger (SVG)
Op: Daily except Saturdays and Sundays
Service class: Y
Equip: 737
BU 578: Newcastle (NCL) 19:15 - 21:25 Stavanger (SVG)
Op: Sundays only
Service class: Y
Equip: 737
36. Yep, it was SAS....but not with a B737-500. Here are the scheds....
SK 2843: Stavanger (SVG) 11:00 - 11:05 Aberdeen (ABZ)
Op: Daily
Service classes: C/Y
Equip: D9S
SK 2845: Stavanger (SVG) 17:20 - 17:25 Aberdeen (ABZ)
Op: Daily except Saturdays
Service classes: C/Y
Equip: D9S
The other air carrier operating nonstop SVG-ABZ service at this time was Air UK with one Fokker F27 flight per day plus three Fokker F50 flights per day.
Sep 17, 2019, 2:30 pm
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Bonus Question :
The first of these services from secondary UK east coast points to Stavanger on the west coast of Norway seems to have started in 1968, when the oil & gas industry first started doing exploration in the intervening North Sea. Principal UK points were Aberdeen, Teesside, Humberside and Norwich, and all sorts of odd flights have come and gone over time, along with a lot of charters, executive jets, and freighters small and not so small. I believe some made as much money from urgent package express as from passengers, and it was common for the ground crew at the turnround point to know they had to wait for a passenger making a return trip just with documents which needed a signature from someone at the other end, or someone else to be shuttled directly across the ramp to a waiting helicopter to take them out to an oil rig in the sea.
But where did those initial 1968 scheduled flights leave from (not the ones listed above), which airline, and which aircraft ?
The first of these services from secondary UK east coast points to Stavanger on the west coast of Norway seems to have started in 1968, when the oil & gas industry first started doing exploration in the intervening North Sea. Principal UK points were Aberdeen, Teesside, Humberside and Norwich, and all sorts of odd flights have come and gone over time, along with a lot of charters, executive jets, and freighters small and not so small. I believe some made as much money from urgent package express as from passengers, and it was common for the ground crew at the turnround point to know they had to wait for a passenger making a return trip just with documents which needed a signature from someone at the other end, or someone else to be shuttled directly across the ramp to a waiting helicopter to take them out to an oil rig in the sea.
But where did those initial 1968 scheduled flights leave from (not the ones listed above), which airline, and which aircraft ?
Sep 17, 2019, 3:07 pm
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29. It's 1983 and you are in Long Beach. You have a meeting to attend in Minneapolis and have found a direct one stop flight from LGB to MSP. Name the air carrier, the stop and the equipment. It wasn't Jet America, American or Frontier and the aircraft wasn't an MD-80, B727-200 or B737-200. The stop was made at DEN.
30. It's still 1983 and you are now in Toledo. There's a symposium you are planning on attending at the University of California at Berkeley and the closest airport is Oakland. You're surprised to learn there's actually a direct flight from TOL to OAK which only makes two stops en route. Identify the airline, both stops and the aircraft type.
It wasn't United or TWA and the aircraft wasn't a B727-100 or B727-200. The flight did not stop at MKE or STL.One of the stops was DEN.
It wasn't United or TWA and the aircraft wasn't a B727-100 or B727-200. The flight did not stop at MKE or STL.One of the stops was DEN.
Sep 17, 2019, 3:18 pm
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29- having ruled out those three common types, let's try a Republic DC-9-30 via Las Vegas (LAS)
30- reapplying the most recent failure of my Q29 logic, we might instead find that Frontier 737 here, operating TOL-XXX-DEN-OAK ... given that FL did a fair number of short tag-ons from primary destinations as they were expanding into the midwest, I suspect XXX=Detroit (DTW)
30- reapplying the most recent failure of my Q29 logic, we might instead find that Frontier 737 here, operating TOL-XXX-DEN-OAK ... given that FL did a fair number of short tag-ons from primary destinations as they were expanding into the midwest, I suspect XXX=Detroit (DTW)
30. Correct! Here's the sched....
FL 621: Toledo (TOL) 6:38a - 6:59a Detroit (DTW) 7:36a 8:35a Denver (DEN) 9:15a - 10:45a Oakland (OAK)
Op: Daily
Service class: Y
Meal service: Breakfast DTW-DEN & DEN-OAK
Equip: 73S
Sep 17, 2019, 3:42 pm
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29- grrrrrrrrr missed that one (speaking of failure of Q29 logic :/) ... over to the others after this guess ... Continental DC-9-10
Sep 17, 2019, 4:21 pm
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And we now have the first tropical squall from Tropical Storm Imelda heading our way. Imelda quickly developed and then made landfall on the coast south of Houston earlier today. No flooding is forecast for our area but the Houston/Galveston area could experience over a foot of rain during the next several days with flooding likely in portions of southeast and east Texas.
Sep 17, 2019, 5:27 pm
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Bonus Question :
The first of these services from secondary UK east coast points to Stavanger on the west coast of Norway seems to have started in 1968, when the oil & gas industry first started doing exploration in the intervening North Sea. Principal UK points were Aberdeen, Teesside, Humberside and Norwich, and all sorts of odd flights have come and gone over time, along with a lot of charters, executive jets, and freighters small and not so small. I believe some made as much money from urgent package express as from passengers, and it was common for the ground crew at the turnround point to know they had to wait for a passenger making a return trip just with documents which needed a signature from someone at the other end, or someone else to be shuttled directly across the ramp to a waiting helicopter to take them out to an oil rig in the sea.
But where did those initial 1968 scheduled flights leave from (not the ones listed above), which airline, and which aircraft ?
The first of these services from secondary UK east coast points to Stavanger on the west coast of Norway seems to have started in 1968, when the oil & gas industry first started doing exploration in the intervening North Sea. Principal UK points were Aberdeen, Teesside, Humberside and Norwich, and all sorts of odd flights have come and gone over time, along with a lot of charters, executive jets, and freighters small and not so small. I believe some made as much money from urgent package express as from passengers, and it was common for the ground crew at the turnround point to know they had to wait for a passenger making a return trip just with documents which needed a signature from someone at the other end, or someone else to be shuttled directly across the ramp to a waiting helicopter to take them out to an oil rig in the sea.
But where did those initial 1968 scheduled flights leave from (not the ones listed above), which airline, and which aircraft ?
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37. Only one airline was operating jet service from East Midlands (EMA) to Belfast (BFS) at this time and the service only operated once a week on Sundays. Identify the airline and the equipment
Sep 18, 2019, 10:05 am
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And I also did not think Dan-Air was operating a Comet on the route.....
Sep 18, 2019, 10:17 am
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29- 1982, LGB-DEN-MSP ... I've managed to winnow out five airlines and five equipment types over a two-day period 
there isn't much left besides a United 727-22
there isn't much left besides a United 727-22
Sep 18, 2019, 10:36 am
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However, BD was not operating the Douglas DC-9-10 or McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 from East Midlands at this time.....but they were operating the BAe ATP along with the Saab 340 from EMA and most of the service to Belfast (BFS) was flown with these turboprop types. And British Midland was also flying Fokker F70 and F100 jet equipment from East Midlands with nonstop service to Amsterdam (AMS), Edinburgh (EDI), Glasgow (GLA), Jersey (JER) and Paris (CDG) as well as the aforementioned Sunday service to Belfast. Here's the sched....
BD 277: East Midlands (EMA) 18:20 - 19:15 Belfast Intl. (BFS)
Op: Sundays only
Service classes: C/Y
Equip: F100
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Sep 18, 2019, 10:37 am
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Sep 18, 2019, 10:47 am
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29- 1982, LGB-DEN-MSP ... I've managed to winnow out five airlines and five equipment types over a two-day period
there isn't much left besides a United 727-22
there isn't much left besides a United 727-22
Sep 18, 2019, 11:19 am
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UA 488: Long Beach (LGB) 4:00p - 7:00p Denver (DEN) 7:50p - 10:30p Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP)
Op: Daily
Service classes: F/Y
Equip: 767
And the other 767 flight from LGB to DEN (UA 694) continued on to Philadelphia (PHL).