NWCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2003, 641 posts, RR: 15 Posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1362 times:
I read at another web site that NW offered service from SNA to SMF, and a few other locations other than just MSP and DTW at one point. Is this even true? If so, when did this service begin, end, what type of equipment was used etc. Thanks for answers in advance.
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7336 posts, RR: 52 Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1321 times:
WTF???? Where did you see that? There is nothing on the NWA worldtimetable about that. Is it possible that it was WN?
NWCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2003, 641 posts, RR: 15 Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1298 times:
My reaction when I saw that as well.
Could have been. I saw it on one of the flyertalk forms. Maybe the author of the article put WN instead of NW. I'll find the link and post it on here.
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7336 posts, RR: 52 Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1293 times:
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1229 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 4): It wasn't Northwest, it was America West.
HP does not have SNA-SMF service either. WN is the only airline with SNA-SMF non-stop service.
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RampRat74 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1455 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1200 times:
HP served the SNA-SMF route from 1991 until only a couple of years ago. They added this route when USAir pulled out of the West coast.
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 8, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1186 times:
Quoting Northwestair (Reply 6): I remember when we had SNA-LAX A320 service but that was short lived
Um, what for? Was it a red-eye tag to MSP meant to beat the curfew?
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Boeing7E7 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1130 times:
Hughes Air West was likely the origional route operator at the time. They were bought by Republic which was then bought by Northwest. I know these routes did continue for a short time into the mid to late 80's. This is where NWA's Seattle presence began. All of the routes in the west gone now and codeshared with AS.
M404 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 2213 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1098 times:
Focus City = Within "America's Heartland" Sorry Orange County but only in Hollywood.
NW does offer SNA/SMF . Via MSP
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NWA Man From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 1828 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1106 times:
Quoting Northwestair (Reply 6): I remember when we had SNA-LAX A320 service but that was short lived
Unless I'm mistaken, you're off by a letter. NW used to have SAN-LAX A320 service, which was rather short lived. The A319 also operated this route for some time, as a tag on to the since-discontinued LAX-KIX route.
NW did use to operate SNA-SEA and PHX-SNA around the time of the Republic merger. In fact, an attempt to beat the SNA curfew was cited as a contributing factor of the NW255 crash in 1987, which was routed DTW-PHX-SNA. I don't believe they ever operated SNA-SMF.
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