I evidently missed the sports charter intention in the sentence that said the 727 could fly anywhere in the USA to anywhere in the USA non-stop (I presume they're not counting Alaska and Hawaii). While Northeast may have used the longer-range B727-100 series they still had to make numerous fuel stops enroute to the West Coast due to the jet stream. However, I don't believe Northeast ever served the market from Ft. Lauderdale as you state. Northeast existed during the days of CAB regulation and the CAB awarded the southern transcontinental non-stop route authority from MIA to California on September 23, 1969. MIA means MIA, not FLL, as the CAB was very specific in their regulations. While Northeast timetables may say "Ft. Lauderdale/Miami" the service was operated from MIA. Back in those days there was very little service to FLL relatively speaking and most of the airlines used "Ft. Lauderdale/Miami" in their timetables, with a "M" for Miami and a "F" in the actual flight schedules to distinguish where the flight actually arrived and departed. The last CAB route book that I have doesn't show any authorized routes from FLL to California and it would be extremely odd for an authorized route to disappear once awarded. I don't believe FLL ever had any scheduled non-stop service to California until the 90's. Jose Prize Fan of accuracy In a message dated 6/10/2003 10:41:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, damiross2@xxxxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: Sports Charters (was Whose 727?) > Date: 6/10/2003 10:41:47 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:damiross2@xxxxxxxxx";>damiross2@xxxxxxxxx</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Beg to differ - if the 727-200 is equiped for executive travel as it would > be > in a sports charter operation, it more than likely has one or more extra > fuel > tanks in the cargo hold. > > Northeast used 727-100's on its flights from FLL (not MIA) to LAX) which, in > airline service, has a slightly longer range than the -200. > > David R > >The B727-200 can't reach LAX from Miami if the winds are wrong, and if they > >can't reach LAX they can't reach SFO and points north (PDX, SEA). National > >727's had to stop in Houston for fuel during the DC10 grounding period and > >Northeast often stopped for fuel on "non-stop" flights, and so did Delta. > > > >Jose Prize > >Fan of accuracy >