The Valley Flyer"

Aug 20, 2002
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In the '70's, when I was aviation-geeky high school kid and avid timetable reader, there was a UAL 737 flight between LAX and SFO that stopped at almost every airport in the Central Valley. This was in the pre-deregulation era and the schedule was carryover from the DC-3 and Convair days. It went something like SFO-SCK-MOD-MCE and then either FAT or BFL before LAX. (I always wanted to ride on it, but my parents didn't see it way.)
Years later I found it was called the valley flyer.
Questions for old timers: what was the actual sked (wonder how long the MOD-MCE leg was)? How many times a day did it operate? When did UAL get rid of it?

Back then UAL also ran a 737 into Elo and Ely, NV. Probably as stops between RNO and SLC.