Originally Posted by jlemon;29266412 [color=#000000

42. Nope, the air carrier in question wasn't Air Florida. However, on the plus side of the column, the equipment was a B737-200 and stops were made at MIA and STT....but not at MCO. Please guess again![/color].

Originally Posted by jrl767

you never do

L10 is my final answer

Originally Posted by JoeDTW

OK, I'll guess the operator was Midway Express, and move the first stop to MDW.

I think towards the end, New York Air's main hub was IAD.

Originally Posted by jlemon

As always, please limit your response to two or three quiz items at a time so that all may participate. Thanks!

28. Fill in the blank concerning this 1969 airline print ad:

New jets: fast, frisky comfortable Boeing 737's coming soon! New attitudes and service that say "something sharp has happened at ____(airline)______"

30. Now you are in Clearwater, Florida and it's 1972. You're off to Miami and have found an evening flight departing from the airport closest to your location. This service operates daily and makes one stop en route. Name the airport you'll be departing from, the airline, the stop and the equipment. ANSWERED

31. It's the spring of 1973. You've just finished a consulting project in Dallas and are ready to visit with friends in Boston. You are in no hurry and have thus found a daily flight which departs Dallas Love Field at 7:00 am and arrives in Boston at 3:46 pm - which means you'll have plenty of time to join your friends for dinner. Better yet, this is a milk run with no less than six stops being made en route. Identify the airline, all six stops in order and the aircraft type. ANSWERED

34. Now it's 1982 you are in Baltimore. You need to travel to the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Texas. You've found a direct one stop flight which departs BWI at 6:00 pm and arrives into the airport closest to JSC at 9:59 pm. Identify the airline, the stop, the equipment and the airport you will arrive into in Texas. ANSWERED

35. It's still 1982 and you have thoroughly enjoyed the NASA symposium at the Johnson Space Center. Now it's time to travel to New York City on business. There's a flight departing from the airport closest to the space center at 11:40 am which will get you into New York LaGuardia at 7:00 pm. This service makes three stops en route and you will be served dinner on the last leg. Name the airport you will be departing from, the air carrier, all three stops in order and the aircraft type.

36. In the summer of 1983 this airline was operating direct connecting service from Anchorage, Alaska to Johannesburg, South Africa. The service was operated once a week. The first flight made one stop en route from ANC to the connecting city where the connection time interval was one hour and 45 minutes. The second flight made two stops between the connecting city and JNB. The same aircraft type was operated on both flights. Identify the airline, the stop made by the first flight, the connecting city, the two stops made by the second flight and equipment. And here's a hint: the connection city was not located in Europe. ANSWERED

38. So it's now the winter of 1983 and milk run flights are beginning to become scarce. You are in Las Vegas and need to attend a lunch meeting in Hartford the next day. Ah, what's this? A multi-stop flight departing LAS at the civilized time of 10:35 am which will get you into BDL at 11:56 pm with five stops being made en route! And first class is available! Book it, buddy! Identify the airline, all five stops in order and the equipment. ANSWERED

The next two quiz items have a time line of 1984......

39. This airline was operating a direct flight once a week from Santo Domingo in the D.R. to Chicago with two stops being made en route. Identify the air carrier, both stops and the aircraft type.

41. At this time, this airline was operating two departures a day from Phoenix nonstop to Reno. One flight operated daily and the other flight operated four days a week. Different aircraft types were operated these flights. Identify the air carrier and both aircraft.

Originally Posted by jlemon

And here's a bonus quiz item.....

A year earlier in 1994, Horizon Air was not operating F28 jet service into Idaho Falls; only Dash 8 service. However, two other airlines were operating jet equipment into IDA at this time, one carrier with two different jet types and the other carrier with one jet type. Name both airlines and also identify the aircraft they were operating into IDA in 1994.

Originally Posted by JoeDTW

34. I'll start the guessing on this one, with an Ozark DC-9 via STL.

Originally Posted by jlemon

Note: Royal Service in F DEN-DFW-MCO

Originally Posted by Seat 2A

Wow! The 1.5 hour 650 mile DEN-DFW run rated Royal Service? I thought that was reserved for flights over 2.5 hours. Very nice.

Originally Posted by WHBM

This one is a belter. Connection, but not in Europe. However, it doesn't say the airline was not European ...

I think it's British Airways. First leg being Anchorage-Tokyo-Hong Kong, and second leg being the much-favoured weekly flight Hong Kong-Colombo-Seychelles-Jo'burg. Both run with 747s. Notably, every one of the points along the way also had its own direct BA flights to London, so it wasn't as much of a challenge to crew from base as you might imagine. Unfortunately, BA was renowned, especially among the British expat community there who formed much of the business, for turning up in Hong Kong very late, so a short connection onto a once-weekly flight would be really chancing it. Any service recovery would probably have you sent on via London, and I think they would be happier if you had gone through there from Anchorage in the first place.

BA ( well, really BOAC) also long had a significant flow between Asia and Africa, connecting at Cairo. This went right back to pre-WW2 Imperial Airways days when the flying boat services to both continents shared the same route out to Alexandria, in Egypt, where there was a significant IAW maintenance base and mail sorting centre.