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Was this a rare visitor or do these MD80s opperate into JFK often? If they are used on regular flights and it wasn't a one time deal, you can probably check flightaware to see where the MD80s are headed.
Long flight, but doable for an MD-83, as its range is 2,504 nautical miles, and no JFK-Colombia route is longer than 2194, namely BOG. Though in all likeliness, this MD-83 was used from either Medellin or Cartagena, both of which are shorter than JFK-BOG.
Avianca only uses to MD-83 to JFK in the flight from Barranquilla (BAQ), the other flights operated by Avianca in/out of JFK are operated by 757s o 767s (from CLO, MDE and BOG)
As said before, AV uses its MD 83 for flights BAQ-JFK. CLO and MDE get 757s and BOG gets the usual daily 767.
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Scary. I'm never comfortable on an MD-80 (for dunno what reason) on an ORD - DFW flight, can't even imagine doing one on a route that long!
The late non lamented JetsGo used them YYZ-YVR as I recall, about 2077 miles. I would not find them scary, perhaps just a little confining after four hours or so.
Not to mention that the 2-3 or 3-2 layout of the MD family is also favorable over the 3-3 layout of A32Xs and 737s if you can get the 2-seated side . One person less to climb over is always a good thing.
I have pictures of a Minerve MD-80 taken at JFK back in the early '90s.
I still have no idea what it was doing there.
Sounds like a delivery flight for Minerve. Early 90's is when most of their MD-83s were delivered to them (or rather AOM after the merger between Minerve and Air Outre Mer). Possibly routed something like LGB-JFK-KEF-ORY, which should be no problem for an empty MD-83.
It seems that was a subsidiary of Minerve in Canada: Minerve Canada.
Minerve Canada operated DC-8s and at least one MD-83 leased from Minerve on flights from eastern Canada to several leisure destinations. Maybe this could be the reason for the Minvere MD-83 in JFK?
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