15 Defunct Airlines You Might Not Remember
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15 Defunct Airlines You Might Not Remember
Please forgive me if this has already been posted on flyertalk.
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Most Flyertalkers will remember 12+ of them. Continental? US Airways? Yes, I remember them.
The ones I didn't recall at all: the first Frontier (not the one still flying), Mohawk, and Air California.
The ones I didn't recall at all: the first Frontier (not the one still flying), Mohawk, and Air California.
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Some of these went bust (Braniff, Pan Am, Eastern) and some were merged up (TWA, PeopleExpress, Frontier, Continental). ValuJet did neither, just changed its name to AirTran.
I knew of all 15 and flew with 8.
I knew of all 15 and flew with 8.
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Bonanza, Pacific, Air West (and Hughes AirWest), Southern, Lake Central, North Central, Allegheny, Wien Air Alaska, Aloha, Trans-Texas (and successor Texas International), National, Western ... and that doesn't even begin to touch the second-tier startups following deregulation in the U.S.
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I don't remember Central or Air California (unless it became PSA)....and of course I do remember Allegheny, Aloha, Texas International, National, Western, Hughes Air-West, and Piedmont too. Does TransWorld Express count? How about Mesaba? Up north there was Canadian Pacific once upon a time.
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I don't remember Central or Air California (unless it became PSA)....and of course I do remember Allegheny, Aloha, Texas International, National, Western, Hughes Air-West, and Piedmont too. Does TransWorld Express count? How about Mesaba? Up north there was Canadian Pacific once upon a time.
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Didn't Allegheny acquire Piedmont to become USAir (which also acquired Pacific Southwest)?
If Continental can possibly be forgotten, so can Northwest and the author forgot National too.
If Continental can possibly be forgotten, so can Northwest and the author forgot National too.
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if I recall the history correctly, Allegheny acquired both Mohawk and Lake Central, then changed their name to US Air, then snapped up both PSA and Piedmont
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I don't remember Central or Air California (unless it became PSA)....and of course I do remember Allegheny, Aloha, Texas International, National, Western, Hughes Air-West, and Piedmont too. Does TransWorld Express count? How about Mesaba? Up north there was Canadian Pacific once upon a time.
This side of the pond I could quote at least 15 without stopping to think including my own British Caledonian.
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Ah, Wienie Bird! My mom was on one of Wien's last flights. She recalls the flight attendants giving her handfuls of liquor minis. They didn't care - they knew they were out of a job once the plane got back to Anchorage.
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You recollection about this is much better and accurate than mine, I am sure. My first USAir (Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality) flights was back in late 1988 when, IIRC, the IATA code was AL because some other outfit (military?) still had US. Flew my 1 and only Piedmont flight- also late 1988 - between SYR and ITH (that's a short flight) before the two were operationally merged. I guess PSA had already been operationally merged by that time as US was flying into BLI from SEA (part of an old PS route mentioned in the old timer's thread).