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11. (1993) From one side of the country to the other - You’re traveling from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS. Your first flight will be nonstop, after which you’ll connect to a one-stopper to Halifax. Two small twinjets of different manufacture will be employed and you’ll be fed breakfast, lunch and dinner along the way. Please identify the two airlines, the two enroute stops and the two equipment types.
AC D9S YVR-YEG We need the mystery airline YEG-YWG-YYZ-YHZ 737-200

34. (1987) You love flying First Class and you love being served a nice meal inflight. As such, you couldn’t be happier to be booked upon a four stop flight between Washington DC and Las Vegas upon which you’ll be served two lunches and a dinner enroute. Identify the airline, the four enroute stops and the aircraft type.N
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JoeDTW

We're also still waiting on answers for the last three questions of my mini-quiz.

WHBM

A significant onetime player in Asia to Africa flights was, surprisingly, BOAC, and later British Airways, connecting between routes from London to each which stopped at Cairo, where a substantial presence was long maintained, interrupted only briefly by the political issues there in the late 1950s. There was actually quite a lot of trade between the various onetime colonial territories in the two continents, and Cairo formed an appropriate pivot point. In fact it had started with Imperial Airways flying boats in the 1930s, which shared the route to both along the Mediterranean as far as Alexandria, Egypt's port, and developed this as a major point. When WW2 came along, and transit of the Mediterranean and across Europe was no longer possible, the two were joined by the joint Imperial Airways/Qantas flying boat "Horseshoe Route", from Australia as far as Cairo, then down to South Africa.

Because of BOAC's licences from Hong Kong, where they long kept Cathay Pacific to more local routes, they developed the route from there direct to Johannesburg, routing through Singapore and Mauritius, which lasted well into 747 days, possibly until 1990, when Cathay took it over. Pilots were crewed from London, and operated the grand triangle via stopovers along the way London-Hong Kong-Johannesburg-London, the round trip taking about three weeks.

I believe BA's No 1 intercontinental-to-intercontinental traffic through London is still USA/Canada to India, and USA/Canada to Africa comes second.

jrl767

guess from last week:

jlemon

2. This would have been my kind of flight sitting in a window seat ahead of the wing on the two-seat side in the single class cabin of the Ozark DC-9-30.....

And I'll guess the stops were Sioux City, Peoria, Champaign and Washington Dulles.

JoeDTW

You are 100% correct. Here's the schedule for OZ 528:

Leave DEN 0935, arrive SUX 11:44 (snack)
Leave SUX 1200, arrive PIA 12:52
Leave PIA 13:10, arrive CMI 13:34
Leave CMI 13:50, arrive IAD 16:10 (snack)
Leave IAD 16:28, arrive LGA 17:20

A fun way to spend a day!

Seat 2A

34. (1987) You love flying First Class and you love being served a nice meal inflight. As such, you couldn’t be happier to be booked upon a four stop flight between Washington DC and Las Vegas upon which you’ll be served two lunches and a dinner enroute. Identify the airline, the four enroute stops and the aircraft type.

Well, the MadDog means it must have been JetAmerica, which means the first two stops were MSP and SEA ... Portland and Long Beach for the others

I don't know why it couldn't have been AA, CO, DL, NW or US... but it matters not as it was indeed Jet America. Here's the itinerary:

Jet America SI 407 Washington (DCA) 1100a-1245p L Minneapolis (MSP) 115p-250p L Seattle (SEA) 330p-410p Portland (PDX) 440p-700p D Orange County (SNA) 740p-840p Las Vegas (LAS) DC-9-80 Daily

jlemon

4. As St. Louis isn't the termination point for these flights, let's go with Kansas City which I believe was a focus city for Ozark. As for the stops, I'll guess Rochester, Waterloo and Des Moines as they are all basically on a direct path between MSP and MCI.

BTW, I never had the opportunity to fly on board a Fairchild Hiller FH-227. However, I did get the chance to fly on board a Fairchild F-27 roundtrip between Santa Barbara and San Jose. The airline was ConnectAir, a new start up based at SBA, which quickly ran out of money and then disappeared after going tango uniform. I seem to recall they had their airplanes repossessed in the middle of the night at SBA due to non payment of the leases.

kochleffel

I believe that my only F27 flight was on a Fokker-manufactured one operated by Luxair. I was 18 and it was a bit of a surprise to be offered a tumbler of Scotch at 10:00 a.m.

I had in my head that I had once flown CLE-SYR in a Wright-operated F27, but now I don't think that Wright ever flew such a thing, so maybe it was a Convair-something. The return was on Empire in an F.28, which I think was my only flight in that model.

KT550

I went to Cleveland in 1984 and well remember the Wright Air Lines Convairs (600 and 640 models) flying in and out.
Sadly I didn't make the effort to get a ride in one, something I regret now.

jlemon

I took a number of flights on Convair 600 aircraft operated by Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) which, of course, subsequently changed its name to Texas International. And I also flew on board Convair 580 aircraft operated by Era Aviation in Alaska (including a memorable ride in the flight deck jump seat one fine morning from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay) back when I worked for this company.

I also just finished reading a book entitled "Ceiling Unlimited" by Robert J. Serling which concerns the history of North Central Airlines from its inception as Wisconsin Central in 1948 up until 1972. In 1959, North Central President Hal Carr made a decision to upgrade and expand the NC fleet (which was solely comprised of DC-3 aircraft at the time) by purchasing used Convair 340 aircraft from Continental (with Mr. Carr personally negotiating the purchase of these airplanes with Bob Six, President of CO). North Central also seriously looked at the then-new Fairchild F-27 at the time. However, the F-27 had a price tag of around $1 million each. So Mr. Carr continued to negotiate with Mr. Six for the CO Convair 340 airplanes and a price of $325,000 apiece was agreed upon. NC then subsequently acquired Convair 440 equipment and the CV-340 and CV-440 airplanes were, of course, eventually converted to CV-580s. Mr. Carr later stated that going with the Convairs with the eventual conversion to turboprop power were among the best decisions he ever made.

Seat 2A

The F.27 was a rare bird for me as well. My only flights were back in 1981 aboard Air Polynesie between Papeete and Bora Bora, on to Raiatea a week later, then Moorea.

jrl767

interestingly, I logged about a dozen flights on Mohawk FH-227Bs to and from ITH in 1971/72, and another on OZ (ORD-BRL-UIN-STL) in the spring of 1976, before any of my four flights on F.27s (a round-trip LAX-EDW on a Rockwell International corporate bird in late 1976, Horizon SEA-PDX in 1982, and NW (Mesaba) DAY-DTW in 1994)