Old Timer's Airline Quiz and Discussion.
Jan 30, 2021, 11:06 pm
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Here are a few questions based on my own travels; I don't have timetables to verify they were the only airlines flying the route etc.
KT.02 [Nov 1987]
It was possible to take a trans-atlantic flight non-stop to Santiago de Compostela (SCQ) on the north west corner of Spain.
Name the airline, type, origin and destination and the additional stop prior to the final destination.
KT.15 [Nov 2002]
Which non Spanish airline had a hub at Palma PMI around this time and flew domestic and international routes from there?
KT.02 [Nov 1987]
It was possible to take a trans-atlantic flight non-stop to Santiago de Compostela (SCQ) on the north west corner of Spain.
Name the airline, type, origin and destination and the additional stop prior to the final destination.
KT.15 [Nov 2002]
Which non Spanish airline had a hub at Palma PMI around this time and flew domestic and international routes from there?
This was Viasa to/from CCS. Aircraft: DC-10 for sure, let's start with variant -30. The way I recall the route was CCS-SCQ-FCO or CCS-SCQ-LHR (depending on the season). But your question suggests a triangle route, so let me try with CCS-SCQ-LIS-CCS
KT.15
Air Berlin
Jan 31, 2021, 2:59 am
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KT.14 [Aug 2002]
Which airline started flying between London LGW and Gothenburg and Linkoping around this time?
Name the airline and equipment used.
EasyJet, Boeing 737-300
I should know this but I don't. I visited Gothenburg once before 2002 and once after 2002. I used the main airport Landvetter but visited Gothenburg City Airport in Save (no longer has airline service but did at the time) and Linkoping Airport. There was a hotel in the city that had a Saab aircraft theme in the artwork.
SAS had LHR-GOT service using a MD-80 which I know from personal experience.
Which airline started flying between London LGW and Gothenburg and Linkoping around this time?
Name the airline and equipment used.
EasyJet, Boeing 737-300
I should know this but I don't. I visited Gothenburg once before 2002 and once after 2002. I used the main airport Landvetter but visited Gothenburg City Airport in Save (no longer has airline service but did at the time) and Linkoping Airport. There was a hotel in the city that had a Saab aircraft theme in the artwork.
SAS had LHR-GOT service using a MD-80 which I know from personal experience.
It might not have been clear in the original question - it was a multi stop flight LGW-GOT-LPI.
Please try again.
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Jan 31, 2021, 3:07 am
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KT.02
This was Viasa to/from CCS. Aircraft: DC-10 for sure, let's start with variant -30. The way I recall the route was CCS-SCQ-FCO or CCS-SCQ-LHR (depending on the season). But your question suggests a triangle route, so let me try with CCS-SCQ-LIS-CCS
Correct. It was VIASA with a DC-10-30.
My route was CCS-SCQ-ORY-LHR on VA718
As you mention, they served different cities depending on the day/season; my outbound flight a couple of weeks before was LHR-ORY-OPO-CCS.
KT.15
Air Berlin
Air-Berlin is correct.
This was Viasa to/from CCS. Aircraft: DC-10 for sure, let's start with variant -30. The way I recall the route was CCS-SCQ-FCO or CCS-SCQ-LHR (depending on the season). But your question suggests a triangle route, so let me try with CCS-SCQ-LIS-CCS
Correct. It was VIASA with a DC-10-30.
My route was CCS-SCQ-ORY-LHR on VA718
As you mention, they served different cities depending on the day/season; my outbound flight a couple of weeks before was LHR-ORY-OPO-CCS.
KT.15
Air Berlin
Air-Berlin is correct.
Last edited by KT550; Jan 31, 2021 at 6:12 am
Jan 31, 2021, 3:14 am
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Correct.
British Airways BHX-MAN on BA865.
The flight originiated in Germany, as BA operated some services from West Berlin before the wall fell.
Complete routing would have been something like TXL-HAJ-BHX-MAN-ABZ.
British Airways BHX-MAN on BA865.
The flight originiated in Germany, as BA operated some services from West Berlin before the wall fell.
Complete routing would have been something like TXL-HAJ-BHX-MAN-ABZ.
Jan 31, 2021, 3:22 am
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I remember flying Transwede with MDs and Fokker 100s from LGW but that was to ARN and they must have disappeared before 2002. So I’ll guess it was City Airline with MD-87s as they were Gothenburg based, I think.
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Jan 31, 2021, 5:46 am
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In the years before the wall fell the flights to Berlin increased substantially, both destinations and range of operators. BA had long managed the operation there from their One-Eleven base in Manchester, but they then started some secondary runs, Saarbrucken and Sylt Island among them, with the 748, and in fact were right on the cusp of changing this over to the BAe ATP when the wall came down. The 748s came from BA's Highlands & Islands Division, based in Glasgow, and needed to be changed over regularly, hence flights such as this. Always made one stop in West Germany in order to collect the Corridor subsidy per flight.
There was a recent discussion about Berlin in 1989 in another Pplace, where I did some descriptions of my own experiences then Willy Brandt flight to Berlin 1989 - PPRuNe Forums
Jan 31, 2021, 9:04 am
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Jan 31, 2021, 9:24 am
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Nice try but Fordair Fokker 70s only flew in the U.S.A.
The Stansted based fleet at that time was 2 x MD-87s, which had replaced the BAC One-Elevens.
It was the Ford Motor Company employee shuttle airline.
The answer is a proper scheduled service airline.
The Stansted based fleet at that time was 2 x MD-87s, which had replaced the BAC One-Elevens.
It was the Ford Motor Company employee shuttle airline.
The answer is a proper scheduled service airline.
Last edited by KT550; Jan 31, 2021 at 9:34 am