WestWind Airlines

We only have one route from KSEA to PANC... classified as a wide-body route even since it uses the PANC connection to get to *Hawaii* .. this seems a bit odd... especially considering there's a direct flight from CYVR to PANC (classified as TP-RJ-NB, which really should be NB only).

I propose a couple flights a day from KSEA to PANC direct, as a NB route.  Looking at Alaska Airlines' schedule, this seems to be the preferred method/equipment.. they fly B734/B739/B73Q on these routes.  Not sure what a B73Q is but... some form of 737 i'm sure.

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Scott M. Stone
WWA1712 - Cat-III - Director of Aircraft
VATSIM 1018857 - C1 Controller - KZSE
Private Pilot - ASEL + Complex + IFR (almost)

A 73Q could be either a 737-200 with hushkits, or a 737 quick change airplane (one that you can convert from pax to cargo and back "quickly").

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I did a google search on Boeing 737-73Q.  Nearly every reference was listed like this: "Boeing 737-73Q (BBJ)". Lot's of pictures (all BBJs) but no specific reference to the "Q", but since they all appear to be BBJs, I would go with  "Quiet".

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Bob S.
Senior Command Captain
E.V.P. Scenery

Cool find Bob!  Boeing has a long list of customer codes that are assigned to aircraft built for that specific customer.  A 737-73Q for example is a Boeing 737-700 built for customer code 3Q (I suspect that if they are all BBJ's that customer code 3Q belongs to the Boeing Business Jets division), by the same token American Airlines is customer code 23, so a 757-223 is a 757-200 built for AA.

IIRC, Eastern was code 25, United is 22, Delta is 21.  Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.  I used to have the complete list at one time, but I bet a google search would find it somewhere on-line.

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