The better word would be "leased" from Pan Am for the winter season, not chartered. Jose Prize In a message dated 5/19/2005 11:33:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aavrane@xxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: trivia question what was the first airline in the US to offer Jet > service > Date: 5/19/2005 11:33:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From: aavrane@xxxxxxx > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent from the Internet > > > > This is not an easy one. This was National Airlines using 707-121 > chartered from Pan American. > > > Best regards, > > Alexandre. > AeroTransport Data Bank > http://www.aerotransport.org > > > Mark Panitz wrote: > > > >Triva question > >which airline was the first airline to offer > >jet service in the US? > >and additional question whoes plane did they use? >