united319 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 513 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 7068 times:
Hi All,
I did a search and could not find anything related, I apologize if I wasn't able to locate an already discussed topic. Just wondering what airlines everyone has flown that are no longer around these days (out of business, merged, other)?
I'll Start, not too many so far. The years mark when I flew them.
planeguy727 From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1067 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 7028 times:
Pan Am
TWA
Eastern
New York Air
Ansett
TAA
Metrojet
Kiwi
Valujet
Northwest
Continental
Comair
Independence Air
Sabena
Braniff
Delta Express
Business Express
National (sunking)
Olympic
Soon to be gone
Airtran
That's what I can recall right now. For the health of the industry perhaps I should stop flying.
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2631 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 7029 times:
TWA
Spanair
America West
Continental
Don't think there are any others.
The 747 will always be the TRUE queen of the skies!
N757KW From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 425 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 7026 times:
Here is my list:
Wien Air Alaska
Western Airlines
Eastern Airlines
Piedmont Airlines
Golden Pacific Airlines
Kiwi International Airlines
Valujet
Northwest Airlines
Continental Airlines
Rocky Mountain Airways (Maybe they still exist?)
Malev Hungarian Airlines
Adamair
America West Airlines
Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA)
Aero Virgin Airlines
Soon to be no more:
Air Tran Airways
Comair
N757KW
"What we've got here, is failure to communicate." from Cool Hand Luke
legacyins From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 1843 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 7022 times:
Pan AM
TWA
Northwest
Continental
PSA
Air Cal
MarkAir
America West
Ansett Australia
Zrs70 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2872 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 7002 times:
Braniff
Braniff II
Braniff III
Pan Am
New York Air
Continental
Eastern
Northwest
TWA
Bar Harbor
Business Express
Trump
Midwest Express
America West
Reno
Canadian Pacific
Mexicana
Olympic
Ansett
(BMI)
Varig
kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 8, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 6993 times:
Ansett New Zealand/Qantas New Zealand
Sky Europe
BMI British Midland (not sure whether it counts since BA acquired it before it could completely collapse)
CP ( Not quite sure whether this counts since it was absorbed by AC before it could completely collapse)
Moderation in all things ... including moderation ;-)
OA260 From Ireland, joined Nov 2006, 24929 posts, RR: 60 Reply 12, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 6958 times:
My list includes brands that have either been taken over ( brand no longer exists ) or gone bust .
Air Belfast
America West Airlines
BMI Baby ( About to dissapear )
British Midland International ( About to dissapear )
BWIA
Continental
Eirjet
Gill Airways
Guyana Airways
My Travel Lite
Northwest Airlines
Olympic Airways/Airlines ( Brand still exists as Olympic Air )
Sabena
Transaer
OLYMPIC AIR - ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΗ "Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΨΗΛΑ" "GREECE FLYING HIGH"
FlySSC From France, joined Aug 2003, 7313 posts, RR: 61 Reply 13, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 6947 times:
Pan AM
People Express
Continental
SABENA
Swissair
Spanair
Olympic Airways
Dan Air London
Air Europe
Meridiana
Air UK
Air Inter
Air Littoral
T.A.T
Air Alpes
Air Lanka
T.E.A
E.A.S (Europe Aero Service)
A.O.M
Air Liberté / Air Lib
Air Charter
I.C.S (Inter Ciel Service)
WildcatYXU From Canada, joined May 2006, 2435 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 6919 times:
Tatra Air
Malev
Canada 3000
JetsGo
HMY
There is another charter airline that went bankrupt few years ago (flew YYZ-ANU-YYZ with them), I just can't remember the exact name. Could it be SkyService?
Rwy04LGA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2158 posts, RR: 7 Reply 17, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 6888 times:
Trans-Canada
Pan American
TWA
Eastern
National
Continental
BOAC
BEA
Allegheny
Kiwi International
PeoplExpress
Seaplane Shuttle Transport (There's a pic on A.net)
The early bird gets the worm, BUT...the second mouse gets the cheese!
FlyingSicilian From Croatia, joined Mar 2009, 824 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 6881 times:
British Caledonian
Pan Am
Great Plains
Eastern
Viasa
Continental Lite
Continental
Northwest
Conquest
Air Sicilia
ATA
Hola Airlines (sub for Windjet flight)
DesertAir From Mexico, joined Jan 2006, 1389 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 6873 times:
Caesed operations
PanAm
Golden Gate
Air Pacific (the California Commuter carrier)
Pacific Express
Lloyd Aero Boliviano (the original)
Mexicana
West Air
Express Jet (independent operations)
ComAir
Merged Carriers
PSA
AirCal
Northwest
Continental
Western
TWA
America West
MHG From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 671 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 6861 times:
Surprisingly long list ...
German Wings
Air Inter
Cirrus Airlines
Euroberlin
TWA
Pan Am
Dan Air (London)
Maersk Air
Scanair
Interflug
Swissair
Sabena
BMIbaby
Hamburg Airlines
BASE (Netherlands)
LAR (Portugal)
Spanair
Aviaco
Aero Lloyd
LTU
BSF (Berliner Spezial Flug)
Deutsche BA
Air Europe
Avia (Sweden)
Linjeflyg
Air UK
NFD
RFG
Asian Spirit
Cosmos Air
Air Liberte
British Midland
My Air
Baltika (Ukraine)
Skyeurope
Oasis Hongkong
Viva Macau
Air Southwest
Not included are airlines that have ceased operations under own name but continue to operate on behalf of a different carrier !
eicvd From Ireland, joined Mar 2008, 2068 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 6858 times:
Only defunct airline I have flown was Futura International, DUB-PMI-DUB back in 2007. I suppose I could add BMI to my "list". Flew them many times between DUB & LHR.
Dublin, where Sam Maguire will be coming home to in mid September
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1994 posts, RR: 6 Reply 23, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 6853 times:
Northwest
Continental
Midwest/Midwest Express
Hapag-Lloyd Express
TWA
And if we throw in regionals, here are a couple more:
Mesaba (not the renamed 9L)
Comair
Not a terribly impressive list...but that's probably a good thing.
bongodog1964 From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2006, 3019 posts, RR: 2 Reply 25, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 6896 times:
Only four on my list
Air UK
Go
Brittania
Carib
Memories
Air UK for excellent catering, the best economy food I ever received
Go - first experience of a LCC
Brittania, great service for a charter airline.
Carib - scheduled inter island flight on an Islander.
planejamie From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2011, 572 posts, RR: 0 Reply 26, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 6891 times:
Flying Colours (first flight on one of their 757-200s out of Bristol to Palma rt in 1999)
Air 2000 (the year after, first flight on an A321 again Bristol-Palma rt)
Not sure if this counts but whatever the BA regional (pre-flyBE) was with Dash 8s. Southampton-Manchester rt (2001/2002?)
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21505 posts, RR: 24 Reply 27, posted (8 months 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 6906 times:
My list:
CP Air
Canadian
Pacific Western
Eastern Provincial
Nordair
Wardair
Air BC
Time Air
Air Atlantic
Inter-Canadien
Pan Am
TWA
Braniff
Eastern
Continental
Northwest
Northeast
National
Western
PSA
Air California
North Central
Hughes Airwest
Pilgrim (small northeast US carrier; one flight on an F-27 JFK-YOW)
Sabena
Swissair
British Caledonian
British European Airways
Crossair
East African Airways
Ansett Australia
New Zealand National Airways (domestic New Zealand carrier, later merged with NZ)
VARIG
ALM Antillean Airlines
longhauler From Canada, joined Mar 2004, 4281 posts, RR: 36 Reply 28, posted (8 months 3 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 6894 times:
My List:
Eastern Provincial
Nordair
Quebecair
Transair
Inter Canadien
Air Atlantic
Air Alliance
Air Ontario
Great Lakes Airlines
Ontario Express / Canadian Partner
Canadian Regional Airlines
Pacific Western
Air BC
Time Air
CPAir
Canadian Airlines
Wardair
Pan American
TWA
Braniff
Western
America West
Wein Air Alaska
Reeve Aleutian
Air Cal
Frontier (the first one!)
Allegheny
Mohawk
Provincetown-Boston
North Central
Republic
PeoplExpress
Northwest
Midwest Express
Eastern
Continental
Chalks
Mexicana
BWIA
Air Jamaica
Caribair
Varig
BOAC
BEA
Dan-Air
Sabena
Swissair
Air Inter
UTA
Never gonna grow up, never gonna slow down .... Barefoot Blue Jean Night
DocGATTACA From Singapore, joined May 2011, 43 posts, RR: 0 Reply 29, posted (8 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 6860 times:
Here's mine
BOAC
BEA
PanAm
TWA
National
Piedmont
ATI
Canadian
Swissair
Eastern
East African Airways
Sunbird (Kenya)
Mandala (maybe they've been resurrected)
Continental
Northwest
America West
Can't think of any others. Plus several of these disappeared in mergers so perhaps they shouldn't be considered defunct.
BoeingGuy From United States of America, joined Dec 2010, 2315 posts, RR: 7 Reply 30, posted (8 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 6776 times:
PSA
Air California
Western
Pan Am
Sabena
British Mediterranean
Aloha
America West
Varig
neutrino From Singapore, joined May 2012, 354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 35, posted (8 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 6644 times:
I can recall only one offhand; Indonesia's Sempati Air which went bankrupt in 1998 following the Asian financial Crisis.
For the best part of the 1990s, I usually did my frequent SIN-JKT-SIN runs on this then President Suharto family/cronies' airline. It was my carrier of choice for two primary reasons: easier passage through immigration/customs and their mainly "on-time arrival" at destination airport.
Their almost perfect "punctuality" was due to their insanely long block time; about half an hour longer than all other airlines on the SIN-JKT-SIN route. In fact, my dozens of flights with them mostly landed before the ETA. Rarely did I arrive later and that only by not more than 15 minutes. I actually do wish I can exceed by over 30 minutes of their ETA because of their guarantee of a free flight. No such luck for me as the 30 minutes guarantee plus their safety margin of another half an hour made it very safe for them to keep to their "never later than half an hour late" pledge.
Ah, also ValuAir which is basically defunct except in name. After operating for barely more than a year, it was acquired by Jetstar in mid 2005. That it still "exists" is because Jetstar is using its permit to operate to Indonesia. Other than that, it is effectively Jetstar now; their grand fleet of two A320s painted in Jetstar colors with the Valuair logo displayed next to it to keep up the myth of still being around.
UK_Dispatcher From United Arab Emirates, joined Dec 2001, 2550 posts, RR: 33 Reply 36, posted (8 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 6638 times:
Off the top of my head:
-Orion Airways, UK
-Britannia Airways, UK
-Dan Air, UK
-Air UK Leisure, UK
-Leisure International Airways, UK
-Air 2000, UK
-Nordic European Airlines, Sweden
-Spanair, Spain
-British Regional Airlines (BA franchise), UK
-Aero Asia, Pakistan
-Alliance Air, India
-Indian Airlines, India
-SN Brussels Airlines, Belgium
-Northwest Airlines, USA
-America West, USA
-Olympic Airlines, Greece
babybus From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 3515 posts, RR: 6 Reply 37, posted (8 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 6629 times:
Without the dates/years mine are:
Pan Am
BEA
VIASA
Dan-Air (London)
Air Europe
British Island Airways
BMI (nearly gone)
Viva Air
Mexicana
Olympic Airways
Air Mediteranea
Air 2000
Ansett
and with that..cabin crew, seats for landing please.
carbon787 From United States of America, joined May 2010, 66 posts, RR: 0 Reply 39, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 6592 times:
Pan Am in the 60's & 70's
Eastern in the 60's
Canadian Pacific in the early 70's
TAA in the 70's & early 80's
Ansett in the 70's, 80's and 90's
Australian Airlines in the early 80's
Compass Airline in the late 80's
Continental in the mid 80's
Lauda Air in the late 90's
Ted in the mid 2000's
NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4860 posts, RR: 10 Reply 40, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 6583 times:
Northwest - 1993ish-2004, 2009
Mesaba - Don't know the exact years, but similar to the Northwest years
Business Express - 2000
Midwest - 2007-2008
SkyWay - 2007
And while the two regional affiliates are still in business, the brand Continental Express is no longer - 2006
Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that? -Capt. Picard
FlyingSicilian From Croatia, joined Mar 2009, 824 posts, RR: 0 Reply 42, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 6562 times:
Quoting FlyingSicilian (Reply 18): British Caledonian
Pan Am
Great Plains
Eastern
Viasa
Continental Lite
Continental
Northwest
Conquest
Air Sicilia
ATA
Hola Airlines (sub for Windjet flight)
Probably some I am missing....
I have to update my own list, I forgot Windjet now that it is gone
AKiestar From Philippines, joined May 2009, 607 posts, RR: 0 Reply 43, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 6547 times:
I can name six:
Air Ads (charter carrier in the Philippines)
Air Philippines (now Airphil Express, and no longer a legacy carrier)
Asian Spirit (now Zest Airways)
Malév Hungarian Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Olympic Airlines
Kaphias From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 206 posts, RR: 0 Reply 45, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 6506 times:
TWA and Northwest, both while traveling from Seattle to the Midwest. I guess another one would be AirOne, which was Taquan Air's FAR 121 operation. Flew them on a couple flights from JNU-KTN (I think KTN, maybe Klawock as well).
mfricke From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 266 posts, RR: 0 Reply 47, posted (8 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 6450 times:
Western Airlines (Original)
Western Airlines (Start up public charter out of BLI)
PSA
Song
Sun Aire
Reno Air
Midwest
Midwest Express
Northwest
Continental
America West
Express Jet (Branded)
Eastern
TWA
ASA
ACA
Pluna
Great Plains
Western Pacific
Big Sky
Muse Air
Desert Sun
Air Midwest
RyanairGuru From Australia, joined Oct 2006, 2533 posts, RR: 2 Reply 48, posted (8 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 6446 times:
The truly irreplaceable Continental Airlines
Also:
BMI/British Midland
Bmibaby
Caledonian Airlines
TWA
JMC
Air 2000/First Choice Airlines
Airtours International
JALways
TAT
British World Airlines
European Aviation Charter
PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 7771 posts, RR: 26 Reply 53, posted (8 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 6393 times:
Here we go:
Pan Am
TWA
Eastern
Northwest
Swissair
BMI
Alleghany
Continental
Western
National
Braniff
Maersk
National
Olympic
Valuejet (I survived that)
Transvalair
Aloha
America West
North Central
Western Pacific
Far Eastern
Debonair
Dan Air
LTU
British caledonian
Australian
Sabena
Canadian pacific
BUZZ
Air Inter
Air Afriqure
Presidential
NY Air
spokemd From United States of America, joined May 2005, 90 posts, RR: 0 Reply 56, posted (8 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 6346 times:
Presidential Airways
TWA
Eastern
Northwest/Northwest Orient
Continental
Republic
Air North
AeroPeru
East-West Airlines (Australia)
Australian Airways
Piedmont
PSA
AirCal
Air1
Midwest Express
America West
Pan Am
New York Air
I'm sure I'm forgetting some feeder airlines for the US majors plus soon to add AirTran
mauiman31 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 434 posts, RR: 0 Reply 57, posted (8 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 6339 times:
Yes, this has been a thread before. Went back to my 2007 response and updated.
TWA
BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL
BRANIFF II-III
PAN AM
BEA
EASTERN
FRONTIER (orig.)
NORTH CENTRAL
OZARK
MOHAWK
ALLEGHENY
REPUBLIC (merger of North Central and Southern)
TEXAS INTERNATIONAL
HUGHES AIR WEST
PSA
AIR CAL
VANGUARD
AMERICA WEST
ALOHA
MIDWEST/MIDWEST EXPRESS
NORTHWEST
CONTINENTAL
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16575 posts, RR: 11 Reply 61, posted (8 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 6124 times:
City Airline
Continental Airlines
Hapag Lloyd Express HLX
Spanair
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2486 posts, RR: 18 Reply 64, posted (8 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 5897 times:
Quoting eicvd (Reply 21): Only defunct airline I have flown was Futura International, DUB-PMI-DUB back in 2007. I suppose I could add BMI to my "list". Flew them many times between DUB & LHR.
Me too!
FH 737
DUB - FUE - TFS - FUE - DUB 2001
DUB - FAO - DUB 2007
& Skyservice
5G A333 DUB - SNN - YYZ - DUB 2006
BA EI FH FR LX RE SK TS VY ZB 3K 5G A300 A310 A319 A320 A321 A333 ATR72 B735 B738 B744 B772 MD82 BCN BOH BRU CPH CRL DUB
jumpjets From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2012, 471 posts, RR: 0 Reply 67, posted (8 months 1 week 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 5814 times:
British Caledonian
BA Connect
British Airtours
Air Europe
Dan Air
Orion
British Midland
JMC
Virgin Sun
Varig
Canadian Airlines
Sabena
Ansett
Manx
Spantax
airindia787 From United States of America, joined May 2011, 51 posts, RR: 0 Reply 69, posted (8 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 5742 times:
I am fairly young, but I still flew with some airlines that are no more today.
Continental, 1998, 2007, 2011, DC-10, 764, 752
TWA 1995, 1996, 762, L1011
Indian Airlines 1994, 2002, 2005, A320
Air Sahara 2000, 737
America West 2004, 752, 733, A320
Swissair 2000, A332, MD-11
Northwest 2009
Soon I will be able to add Comair to the list, and possibly Kingfisher.
PITingres From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 959 posts, RR: 12 Reply 72, posted (8 months 1 week 3 days ago) and read 5585 times:
Airlines that went poof completely (as far as I know):
Ansett
BWIA
Eastwind (a highly amusing experience)
Vanguard
In the bought-before-dying department, I find:
America West
BMI
TWA
and if you include mergers, add Continental and Northwest.
I can't really see including Song or Ted, as they were both just brand lines within Delta and United respectively. I don't even think they were distinct subsidiaries. I don't think Allegheny should count either, as they renamed themselves US Air and then US Airways.
Coronado From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 1001 posts, RR: 2 Reply 76, posted (8 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 5290 times:
This really dates me
VASP 1956 Saab 90 Scandia (which probably also doubles up as a rare a/c since i think only 18 were built)
REAL Aerovias 1958 (Constellation 1049) and
after that a whole bunch on VARIG(RIP). Never got to fly Panair do Brasil.
Other defunct airlines or at least airline names, i flew on at different times during the 70's and 80's and 90's include Braniff, TWA( I guess acquired or at least killed off without too much mercy); Ozark (acquired); Viasa, Ecuatoriana de Aviacion, Mexicana, PLUNA, LAPSA, TAME, Samit, Spantax; Pan Am, Eastern, Sadia/Transbrasil, Cruzeiro, Ladeco, Faucett, Aeroperu, VIASA, North Central, Republic, Southern (took me to Columbus GA in 1972 for jump school at Ft. Benning!), Northwest (or as my now 30 year old daughter pointed up into the sky in Minneapolis when she was 2 or so years old 'Norsewess Oreo-ent Air-ines'-those TV ads were catchy.
The Original Coronado: First CV jet flights RG CV 990 July 1965; DL CV 880 July 1965; Spantax CV990 Feb 1973
retrolivery From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 202 posts, RR: 0 Reply 81, posted (7 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4686 times:
Swissair
Olympic
Ted
Continental
Clickair
Malev
Air One
A3, AA, AC, AI, AK, AM, AP, AZ, B6, BA, CO, DL, EK, FL, FR, KL, KM, LH, MA, MH, MS, OA, OK, OS, SR, TA, U2, UA, US, XG
jporterfi From United States of America, joined Feb 2012, 358 posts, RR: 0 Reply 83, posted (7 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 4412 times:
Very short list for me:
HP
IT (Air Deccan- former Indian airline, merged with Kingfisher after I flew on them)
IT (Kingfisher Red the airline that Kingfisher turned Air Deccan into)
QX (not sure if this would count, but AS said it was retiring this brand, and all planes are being repainted into the AS livery)
MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6242 posts, RR: 51 Reply 85, posted (7 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4374 times:
CoachClass From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 357 posts, RR: 0 Reply 86, posted (7 months 2 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3995 times:
My two favorite defunct airlines: Malev and Loftleider. They both had the same quality, not usually seen anymore: personal passenger attention.
Loftleider from LUX to JFK on the CL44--noisy cabin; the F/A's came to each row and pointed out the light and call buttons and safety issues. Great dinner from LUX and fantastic breakfast from KEF to JFK: Fish fillet with eggs.
Malev F/A's on a very small TU presented hot meals individually in economy, between BUD and MUC, treated you like you were in their home. And gave you large chocolate bars as part of the meal and passed out mints before landing.
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 10 Reply 87, posted (7 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 3987 times:
Key Air
Air Nova
America West
Song
Delta Shuttle
Continental
Colgan
Comair
Northwest
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (sorta defunct)
Mesaba (well, the then-Mesaba)
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21505 posts, RR: 24 Reply 89, posted (7 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3947 times:
Quoting longhauler (Reply 88): Quoting CoachClass (Reply 86):
Loftleider from LUX to JFK on the CL44--noisy cabin;
Very rare aircraft too! Not a lot of people can say that have flown on the CL-44.
They're probably mostly former Canadian military personnel who flew on the RCAF's 12 Yukons (CL-44-6, or CC-106 in RCAF terminology) between 1959 and 1971.
gasman From New Zealand, joined Mar 2004, 733 posts, RR: 0 Reply 90, posted (7 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3918 times:
- TWA in 1974, LAX-JFK-LHR on a 707. I have a vague memory of a pleasant flight; my parents still rave about the service and quintessential American warmth to this day.
- BOAC in 1974, LHR-JFK-LAX-HNL-NAN all in one go on a VC10. That trip still sends shivers down my spine (and not in a good way). Hang on, BOAC isn't exactly "defunct".........
- Northwest - used them extensively in 1994. I thought they were great. Loved the DC-10's. Was very saddened when they went under.
- Ansett New Zealand. You have to admire the bravery of carriers that take on Air New Zealand head to head on the New Zealand main trunk.
- Mt Cook Airlines. All I remember is noisy, ageing HS-748s with what seemed like 20" seat pitch.
- NAC - which was amalgamated into Air New Zealand in 1978
CoachClass From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 357 posts, RR: 0 Reply 93, posted (7 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 3871 times:
Longhauler, Viscount 724.
I was told that these planes, the CL-44's, were actually the largest passenger planes flying the Atlantic in the 60's. If that's true, that would mean bigger than the B707's and DC-8's before those planes got stretched. I was in my 20's, returning from college in Germany and remember the excitement of the journey, especially disembarking at REK in predawn darkness to the snowy tarmac and getting hit in the face with the cold, fish smelling wind. The airport was right close to the fishing harbor.
longhauler From Canada, joined Mar 2004, 4281 posts, RR: 36 Reply 94, posted (7 months 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 3863 times:
Quoting CoachClass (Reply 93): I was told that these planes, the CL-44's, were actually the largest passenger planes flying the Atlantic in the 60's. If that's true, that would mean bigger than the B707's and DC-8's before those planes got stretched.
That would make sense. They would have been larger than any B707, and the DC-8 up to the Series 50. But it was quite a bit shorter than a TU-114.
I was reading a book about the CL-44 recently, and it stated that the seat mile cost to operate one was about half that of a B707-300B/C, or a DC-8-50! I can see therefore why it would be attractive to Loftleider as they were after that low cost market.
Never gonna grow up, never gonna slow down .... Barefoot Blue Jean Night
CoachClass From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 357 posts, RR: 0 Reply 101, posted (7 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 3484 times:
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Lucky727 From Canada, joined Sep 2003, 600 posts, RR: 2 Reply 105, posted (7 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 3319 times:
CP Air
Canadian Airlines
Nordair
Canada 3000
Royal
Transair
Pacific Western
Odyssey
City Express
Air Ontario
Allehgeny
PeoplExpress
Eastern
Midwest Express
Air Cal
Northwest
BOAC
aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1347 posts, RR: 12 Reply 106, posted (7 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 3145 times:
Pan Am
Sabena
SAETA (Ecuador)
Air New England
Aloha
Piedmont
Aeropostal (Venezuela)
Fawcett (Peru)
I think it's wrong to include airlines like TWA or Northwest on this list. They weren't "defunct" so much as they were merged or acquired away. North Central, Republic, Northwest, Delta.... it makes the whole exercise somewhat semantic.
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Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21505 posts, RR: 24 Reply 107, posted (7 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 3143 times:
Quoting aviateur (Reply 106): Pan Am
Sabena
SAETA (Ecuador)
Air New England
Aloha
Piedmont
Aeropostal (Venezuela)
Fawcett (Peru)
I think it's wrong to include airlines like TWA or Northwest on this list. They weren't "defunct" so much as they were merged or acquired away. North Central, Republic, Northwest, Delta.... it makes the whole exercise somewhat semantic.
I disagree. They're still defunct, whether they went bust or disappeared through a merger. The only airlines I wouldn't include are those that only changed their name. For example, I wouldn't count Air Canada and Trans-Canada Air Lines separately since that was just a name change.
PI4EVER From United States of America, joined May 2009, 599 posts, RR: 2 Reply 108, posted (7 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 3093 times:
Compiling this list brings back fond memories, but some that age me!
BOAC
Braniff International
Capital Airlines
Eastern
Flying Tigers
National
Northwest
Piedmont
People Express
PSA
Southern
Transocean (TALOA)
Trump Shuttle
West Coast Airlines
CXB77L From Australia, joined Feb 2009, 2197 posts, RR: 4 Reply 113, posted (7 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 2908 times:
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The only defunct airline that I've flown on is Ansett Australia in the mid 1990s. I flew from PER-SYD and back on (if I recall correctly) their 767-200s.
aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1347 posts, RR: 12 Reply 114, posted (6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2690 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 107): I disagree. They're still defunct, whether they went bust or disappeared through a merger. The only airlines I wouldn't include are those that only changed their name. For example, I wouldn't count Air Canada and Trans-Canada Air Lines separately since that was just a name change.
Yeah, in thinking it over, you're probably right.
I'll add Northwest and TWA to my list.
And I forgot a few. New York Air, for one. "Apple," as its call sign was. They flew MD-80s and DC-9s on NYC/BOS/DCA shuttle routes for a while. Great livery and marketing. Not a bad little carrier. Eventually folded into Lorenzo's Continental, I believe.
Trump Shuttle also.
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thegoldenargosy From United States of America, joined Sep 2010, 224 posts, RR: 0 Reply 119, posted (6 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2441 times:
Air Midwest
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
British Midland International
Colgan Air
Comair
Continental Airlines
Mesaba Airlines
Midwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Shuttle by United
Trans World Airlines
FI642 From Monaco, joined Mar 2005, 1056 posts, RR: 2 Reply 120, posted (6 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2413 times:
Pan Am
TWA
Air Aruba
BWIA
Atlantic Airways
Christman
Cumberland Airlines
Republic
Eastern
Piedmont
Olympic
EuroWings (when they still were EW)
ProAir
Air Inter
Av Atlantic
Champion
Continental
Northwest
Metro Jet
America West
Arrow Air
ATA
Com Air
Capital Helicopters
737MAX, Cool Planes for the Worlds Coolest Airline.
FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1626 posts, RR: 3 Reply 121, posted (6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2293 times:
I flew:
Air Afrique JFK-DKR-ACC, ACC-ABJ-DKR-JFK
Air South JFK-GSP-CHS round trip on a 737 that had the first 2 rows facing each other. Very cool never saw it again on another plane
Northwest PIR-MSP-EWR. The MSP-EWR leg was my first and only A330 flight. Also flew NRT-LAX mid-merger while working for DL.
Lastly DL regionals that don't exist: Freedom Airlines and Comair.
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 10 Reply 123, posted (6 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 2288 times:
Quoting KingFriday013 (Reply 87): Key Air
Air Nova
America West
Song
Delta Shuttle
Continental
Colgan
Comair
Northwest
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (sorta defunct)
Mesaba (well, the then-Mesaba)
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