Originally Posted by jlemon

3. It's a beautiful Saturday evening in Palm Springs in February of 1984. You are enjoying the relatively warm weather in the low desert country while having dinner with friends who live in the area. A message is then delivered: Can you be in Spokane for an 8:00 am meeting on Monday concerning a lucrative consulting contract? Well, of course you can! You ascertain there is direct flight departing from PSP at the civilized time of 11:35 am the next morning that arrives in GEG at 5:15 pm which perfectly fits your schedule. Name the air carrier you'll be flying with as well as the aircraft type and also identify all four stops in order. One of the stops was Reno (RNO).

4. Now it's the spring of 1984 and you are in New Orleans. You need to travel to Little Rock for a lunch meeting. You've found a daily nonstop flight which departs MSY at 10:00 am and arrives in LIT at 10:55 am. Identify the airline and the jet equipment.

Originally Posted by WHBM

Well you might do again soon. BA's large Boeing 787 fleet FINALLY should start coming on line by the end of next year, and with their recent acquisition of BMI there are, for once, quite a number of slots at London Heathrow for BA to play with, and all sorts of rumours about what they will come up with. New Orleans is one of the more regular suggestions - I believe it's the largest metropolitan area in the USA that BA doesn't already serve. The principal downside is that there is not much of a current OneWorld/American frequent flyer/business travel base there to start from, nor any OneWorld connections to anywhere that BA doesn't serve directly already. Miniliq, would you like the job of a BA sales agent at MSY for a couple of years to hammer round all the relevant business contacts there and drum up a whole lot of Transatlantic business ??? !!! What a shame BA don't have Concorde any longer, not to run the service but it was always sent to any significant new destination on opening day to get the attention of all the local media.

The old National flights to Europe were in around 1978; they didn't last for too long as the loads weren't there. Why all those European cities but not London ? Well, the old Bermuda Agreement between the UK and USA would have meant that the service would have to be to London Gatwick; National already had a daily service to London Heathrow from Miami, and didn't want a split operation across London.

The BA flights came along a bit later, around 1982. BA really wanted to serve Mexico City, but their (new at the time) Tristar 500s didn't have the ability for the long haul from the high elevation there, so New Orleans was a convenient new city, refuelling stop, and not quite such a high elevation . Neither Mexico nor Louisiana worked out financially, and the final annoyance was that, again because of the Bermuda Agreement, the service had to be from Gatwick, but the Tristar fleet was based at Heathrow, leading to the double wastefulness of not only having to position the aircraft to and fro empty, but worse, to have to waste Heathrow runway slots to do so. BA never really knew what to do with those Tristar 500s, and quite quickly did a deal to sell them off to the Royal Air Force. No sooner was this done than they took over the old British Caledonian route to Brazil for which the aircraft would have been ideal, their standard Tristars didn't have the range and the 747 was too big. They ended up therefore having to lease a couple back in from Sri Lankan Airlines.

Originally Posted by jlemon

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!
7. In 1984, Northeastern International Airways was serving five different airports in Florida. Name all five destinations by their respective airport codes. And as a bonus question, what was the largest aircraft in the Northeastern International fleet at this time?

Originally Posted by jlemon

10. Also in 1986, Piedmont entered into an agreement with another airline to provide connecting service to and from 19 destinations via a major east coast airport. Name the air carrier that PI had the agreement with as well as the airport where the connecting service was offered.

Originally Posted by jlemon

6. In 1975, Hughes Airwest was operating daily onestop jet service from Twin Falls to San Francisco with one flight a day. Name the intermediate stop.

Originally Posted by jrl767

7. Let's try these:

1. FLL (Ft Lauderdale)
2. MIA (Miami)
3. MCO(Orlando)
4. PBI (West Palm Beach)
5. PIE (St Petersburg)

I know Northeastern operated the DC-8 Series 50; thinking they may have had a -61 as well

10. I was initially thinking about Empire Airlines, but their hub was at Syracuse which doesn't really qualify as "a major east coast airport" ... moreover, I looked in my log and found that the first of my two 1985 flights aboard Fokker F-28 N109UR was while it was in Empire livery and the second was PI
prior to being swallowed up by USAir, PI had hubs at both Baltimore and Charlotte; their regional affiliate at BWI was Henson Aviation, but I suspect we are looking for a more recognizable name

Originally Posted by st1575

I think this is Stockton (SCK).

Originally Posted by jlemon

3. It's a beautiful Saturday evening in Palm Springs in February of 1984. You are enjoying the relatively warm weather in the low desert country while having dinner with friends who live in the area. A message is then delivered: Can you be in Spokane for an 8:00 am meeting on Monday concerning a lucrative consulting contract? Well, of course you can! You ascertain there is direct flight departing from PSP at the civilized time of 11:35 am the next morning that arrives in GEG at 5:15 pm which perfectly fits your schedule. Name the air carrier you'll be flying with as well as the aircraft type and also identify all four stops in order.

4. Now it's the spring of 1984 and you are in New Orleans. You need to travel to Little Rock for a lunch meeting. You've found a daily nonstop flight which departs MSY at 10:00 am and arrives in LIT at 10:55 am. Identify the airline and the jet equipment.

Originally Posted by jlemon

... 3. It's a beautiful Saturday evening in Palm Springs in February of 1984. You are enjoying the relatively warm weather in the low desert country while having dinner with friends who live in the area. A message is then delivered: Can you be in Spokane for an 8:00 am meeting on Monday concerning a lucrative consulting contract? Well, of course you can! You ascertain there is direct flight departing from PSP at the civilized time of 11:35 am the next morning that arrives in GEG at 5:15 pm which perfectly fits your schedule. Name the air carrier you'll be flying with as well as the aircraft type and also identify all four stops in order.

Originally Posted by jrl767

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Trivia Question:
what was the significance of this image on the front cover of a Boeing telephone directory?

Originally Posted by miniliq

I'm guessing it was Treetop Airlines (TI).

Originally Posted by miniliq

I'm guessing it was Treetop Airlines (TI). probably a DC9. They had a lot of service in this region for many years -- I used to fly from HOU to jl's home territory LAF back in the early 70's.

Originally Posted by jrl767

3- ok, wild guess time -- Sunworld, DC-9-10; Ontario (ONT), Las Vegas (LAS), Reno (RNO), Portland (PDX)

7- as for Northeastern International, I think they ran a couple of Airbus A300s before closing up shop