MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6242 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1532 times:
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 1): did that flight provide connection to other flights in either ORD or SFO?
That one was used to connect with PA's vast Pacific operation out of SFO.
TWA1985 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 638 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1520 times:
MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6242 posts, RR: 51 Reply 5, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1514 times:
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 4): what year did UA take over PA's Pacific routes?
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 6, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1501 times:
Thus, this is 1985, all makes sense........thanks, I appreciate it. The PA flight really surprised me but, by 1985, PA was probably trying to create some online domestic feed for its Asian network.
DIA From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3273 posts, RR: 30 Reply 8, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1406 times:
Quoting EXAAUADL (Reply 7): that DC-8 is really a D8S isnt it...I would think that the short bodied DC-8s were gone by 1985.
Short bodies were gone by the early 1980s for UA. The one noted above was a DC-8-71.
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WA707atMSP From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 2042 posts, RR: 13 Reply 9, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1329 times:
Quoting TWA1985 (Reply 3): The PA flight continued to DTW. Figure that?
TWA1985
It's not that surprising, because in 1985, DTW was just a focus city for NW. It didn't become a full hub for NW until after the Republic merger the next year. Most passengers going from Detroit to Asia took Republic to California, then Pan Am or JAL to NRT. I'm sure Pan Am added the DTW-ORD tag to enable passengers flying from Detroit to Asia to take PA all the way.
TWA1985 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 638 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1278 times:
I am surprised though that PA, with all their widebodies, did not use a larger aircraft on the route. But I guess the demand must have been light enough for the 727 to do the trick.
TWA1985 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 638 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1063 times:
Any other airlines serve the route ever, other than AA and UA of course?
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18858 posts, RR: 64 Reply 12, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 926 times:
Quoting TWA1985 (Reply 11): Any other airlines serve the route ever, other than AA and UA of course?
TWA until they stopped their ORD flying west in 1982(?). I was booked DCA-ORD-SFO circa winter of 81/82 shortly before they stopped the flights, but instead took a voluntary bump to route DCA-STL-SFO for the cash and upgrade to 707 First out of STL before the 707s were history.
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