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     Now on to the next four leg bit. However, this one isn’t 4000 miles, it’s just over 1000 total, and it all takes place in the midwest United States. Even until the 1980s, Eastern sill operated the somewhat antiquated ‘point-to-point’ system on many of its routes. Although the flight would leave from a major hub, it would often stop in several intermediate airports along the way, as this next flight shows. Flight 471 leaves Kansas City, one of Eastern’s major hubs. However, once it lands in Cleveland, the 727 then hops between Pittsburgh and Detroit during the night hours, before it returns to Kansas City the next morning. One of Eastern’s strategies was that people would sacrifice other luxuries for a reduced fare, and that’s exactly the reason some of their flights kept the ‘point-to-point’ system. Many times aircraft would bounce between multiple nearby airports picking up passengers before flying on to its final destination, and many times the airplanes would be full of passengers who could care less about the hour, or number of stops, as long as they got their cheap ticket. The legs listed on this flight are below:

     Leg 1.) 471 KMCI-KCLE 1805-2038
     Leg 2,) 470 KCLE-KPIT 2106-2141
     Leg 3.) 1320 KPIT-KDTW 2238-2326
     Leg 4.) 468 KDTW-KMCI 0830-0917

     I hope you’ve learned something about Eastern’s network from reading this article, and now have the knowledge that will help you utilize VEAL’s schedules to their full potential. Oh yeah! This is especially relevant now that we have the brand new Vistaliner Silverjet 727-200 in our hangar by our good friend Erick Cantu. If you haven’t tried this airplane out yet, PLEASE do so. It is better than payware, and doesn’t eat up framerates like other similar add-ons. Now we just need to wait for the 727-100. Maybe I’ll write another schedule tutorial for that one when it comes out.

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