Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Coming Soon...North Central Airlines

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Coming Soon...North Central Airlines

North Central Airlines

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
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Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 09:13 ET by Andrew Vane

One of Northwest's acquisitions was North Central Airlines, a central US regional airline centered out of Milwaukee, Detroit and Minneapolis. NCA was acquired by NW prior to the Delta merger and opened up a lot of local and regional routes in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the northern Mississippi valley. NCA started with DC-3's, Martin 404's and eventually DC-9's prior to changing its name to Republic Airlines in 1952 and being ultimately purchased in 1986. Quite a history.

Anyway, stay tuned for NCA to appear in the schedule along with some routes throughout what is looking today like a winter-wonderland. You should enjoy these multi leg routes that link smaller airports, some of which will be new to our database and in real life no longer see commercial flights. In the past, instead of hub and spoke systems, airline routes linked smaller airports in a chain with the larger ones.

I will start to populate the schedule over the next few weeks.

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Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA4176
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP

Joined on March 11 2007
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"In the cold Kentucky rain"
Horn Lake, MS USA

7,114 legs, 11,537.2 hours
4,673 legs, 6,709.8 hours online
5,630 legs, 8,974.5 hours ACARS
371 legs, 587.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 09:53 ET by Scott D Williams

This is great Andrew, I loved North Central as a kid. These routes make for some tough winter flying at times riding the blue goose. They merged with another of my favorites the old smiley face Southern.

Scott D Williams

Senior Captain, L-1011-100

DVA3672
Senior Captain, A320
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"Chris, NOT in Seattle"
Northeastern United States

2,534 legs, 6,223.1 hours
1,537 legs, 3,252.2 hours online
2,243 legs, 5,407.0 hours ACARS
4 legs, 6.0 hours event
2 legs dispatched, 19.5 hours

Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 11:10 ET by Chris Frasure

Awesome! Thanks for putting in the work for this.
CF

DVA12104
Senior Captain, B727-200

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""The white zone has always been for loading or unloading..""
Las Cruces, NM

3,338 legs, 6,583.0 hours
3,269 legs, 6,426.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 14:08 ET by Brian Donaldson

Yahoo!!

Brian Donaldson

Senior Captain, B727-200

DVA5643
Senior Captain, DC-6

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"I'd rather be lucky than good"
Hampton, GA USA

1,914 legs, 2,888.2 hours
5 legs, 3.8 hours online
1,907 legs, 2,878.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 19:26 ET by Jim Daigneau

Awesome, Andrew! Now I can feel "authentic" flying my Gold Feather Herman CV-580! See more here: http://hermantheduck.org/ Thanks for the great work!

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

DVA10902
Senior Captain, B767-300

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"Where am I? Who dressed me like this?"
Bloomingdale, IL

515 legs, 1,153.3 hours
473 legs, 1,063.5 hours online
514 legs, 1,150.2 hours ACARS
9 legs, 19.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 23:27 ET by Tim Oleary

Actually, North Central was not 'aquired' by Northwest Orient. North Central, Southern and Hughes AirWest merged to form Republic Airlines-which was aquired by Northwest Orient and became just 'Northwest' (dropped the 'Orient' for marketing reasons). It was an interesting merger with flight crews being "Red Book"(NWO), "Blue Book"(RC), and 'Orange Book'(Post Merger NWA) pilots depending on contract cover color.

Northwest Orient operated Boeing 747-200 (Pax & Freight) Boeing 757s(P&W), 727s and Republic operated various DC-9s, 727s, RR powered 757, Convair 580s.

In the Airline Humor Department: Northwest produced a sticker that had the NWA logo surrounded by the words "Pride, Performance, Professionals". A week after it went up in the Operations Department some wag crossed out "Professionals" and penned "Propellors" over "Professionals".

Tim Oleary (DVA10902)

Posted onPost created on November 29 2018 09:06 ET by Jim Daigneau

Good history, Tim. Minor correction: I think Republic was referred to as the "Green Book" guys. It was not one of the better mergers conducted in the airline industry.

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

Posted onPost created on November 29 2018 16:49 ET by Andrew Vane

Its always worth it for me to add historical airlines so the seasoned pilots here can share. smile

I learn something everyday!

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on November 29 2018 21:02 ET by Tim Oleary

You are correct Jim, RC guys were Green Book....(sorry I was car shopping when I read the NCA thread...Kelly Blue Book)

Tim Oleary (DVA10902)

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Concord, NH

705 legs, 1,608.5 hours
301 legs, 859.8 hours online
518 legs, 1,008.5 hours ACARS
28 legs, 93.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 30 2018 14:26 ET by Tom Burrill

Interesting history glad to see the North Central additions I found and flew of these flights in the past and enjoy the addition of more DC3 flights.

Tom Burrill

Captain, B737-800

DVA13004
Captain, B747-400
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"Not all who wander are lost."
Waterloo, SC

858 legs, 1,943.2 hours
756 legs, 1,394.6 hours online
856 legs, 1,932.8 hours ACARS
17 legs, 34.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 19 2018 17:42 ET by Erik Peterson

fascinating history! Thank you for putting in the work Andrew to open up these airports! I love flying into the smaller fields (with biggest plane that will fit, to give the citizens pause as I fly overhead!) and these will be a wonderful addition! New accomplishment maybe?

Erik Peterson

Captain, B747-400

DVA9054
Captain, DC-6
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"Just love to fly......."
Egypt

2,748 legs, 7,177.5 hours
11 legs, 22.3 hours online
2,747 legs, 7,175.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on December 23 2018 02:46 ET by Alaa Riad

I love how the map above looks so vintage smile

thanks Andrew smile

Alaa Riad

Captain, DC-6

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