Kjet12 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 975 posts, RR: 8 Posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 847 times:
While cleaning out the garage today, I found lots and lots of old airplane memorabilia. Braniff timetables, buttons, a Northwest Orient free reward ticket, a 1981 AA 727 safety card, and even an application for the teacher in space program (the Challenger mission). Anyway, I also found an old boarding pass for a flight from MLI (Moline, IL) to MSP. It was flight 615 on April 2, 1988. Does anybody happen to know what kind of plane it would have been? Would it have been a NW airlink or mainline NW?? Any help and information would be greatly appreciated.
Kjet12 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 975 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 835 times:
I also found my intenerary and my flight from MSP on March 26, 1988 was flight NW1497 (MSP-MLI). If anyone has info on that flight, it would really help.
Tango-Bravo From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 3725 posts, RR: 31 Reply 2, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 801 times:
Though I don't have a NW timetable from 1988, here is what I find in their January 5-31, 1987 and September 6-30, 1989 timetables for MSP-MLI:
1/5-31/87
MSP-MLI: one daily non-stop NW964 eqp DC9
MSP-CID-MLI: two daily flights; NW106 eqp 72S and NW1254 eqp DC9
MLI-CID-MSP: three daily flights; NW231 and NW426 opb DC9, NW355 opb 72S
(no non-stops MLI-MSP)
DC9 specifically denoted DC-9-14/15 series aircraft, since NW also used the designations D9S, D95 and M80 in the same timetable.
9/6-30/89
MSP-MLI and MLI-MSP: all flights were operated non-stop by Mesaba for NW (in the NW3000-3399 flight numbers range), 4x each way Mon-Fri with frequency reduced on weekends. Equipment type, not shown in timetable, would have been F27 or Metro III turboprops.
Since the NW flight numbers allocated to "service provided by other carriers in conjunction with Northwest" were 2000 or higher, NW651 and NW1497 were no doubt mainline-operated NW flights.
HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 784 times:
Did Fischer Brothers operate out of MSP too like they did at DTW with CASA 212, Short 360s, Do 228s and ATR 42s?
Continental From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 5476 posts, RR: 21 Reply 4, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 760 times:
Ironic. I flew NW615 on June 21, 2003. It was MDW-MSP on a Boeing 757-200 though.
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