Airlines you've flown that no longer are
Feb 16, 2002, 1:28 am
#61
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: El Dorado Hills, CA USA
Posts: 222
I have a vague memory as a small kid in the 40s of flying out of Detroit's Willow Run airport (before DTW) on a "PCA" DC-3 (yes, you walk uphill to get to your seat). Does anyone remember this airline and/or remember what PCA stood for? Or is this a figment of my imagination?
Feb 16, 2002, 1:35 am
#62
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA - UA1K 2MM
Posts: 117
Great list. Brings back fond memories.
Anybody remember Apollo Airways dba Pacific Coast Airlines? Red, white and blue JetStreams out of Santa Barbara flying CA and NV? Folded in '86 after 10 years. Was a small, friendly airline and a great place to work.
I closed the SFO station
Other airlines from those days that I've flown and has not been mentioned.
Air America
Golden Gate
Inland Empire
Pride Air,,,had a great inaguration spread
Anybody remember Apollo Airways dba Pacific Coast Airlines? Red, white and blue JetStreams out of Santa Barbara flying CA and NV? Folded in '86 after 10 years. Was a small, friendly airline and a great place to work.
I closed the SFO station
Other airlines from those days that I've flown and has not been mentioned.
Air America
Golden Gate
Inland Empire
Pride Air,,,had a great inaguration spread
Feb 16, 2002, 6:52 am
#66
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Programs: Hilton Diamond, peon literally everywhere else!
Posts: 396
Mine include
Eastern
Western
Allegheny
Piedmont
AeroMech (PIT based commuter)
Missippi Valley Airlines
Ozark
Pan Am (I don't buy the new one)
Prinair (Puerto Rico - I think they're defunct)
Hughes Airwest
(edited to add Hughes - I forgot about those bananna and purple birds)
Is SAHSA still flying in Honduras?
I think that's them. Plus, for the poster a few back commenting on United - I've already written them off - so they might as well be defunct in my book. - UAL FREE 5 YRS!
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Eastern
Western
Allegheny
Piedmont
AeroMech (PIT based commuter)
Missippi Valley Airlines
Ozark
Pan Am (I don't buy the new one)
Prinair (Puerto Rico - I think they're defunct)
Hughes Airwest
(edited to add Hughes - I forgot about those bananna and purple birds)
Is SAHSA still flying in Honduras?
I think that's them. Plus, for the poster a few back commenting on United - I've already written them off - so they might as well be defunct in my book. - UAL FREE 5 YRS!
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UAL free since the last millennium - and planning to stay that way!
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Feb 16, 2002, 7:09 am
#67
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Bloomington IN
Posts: 882
Many, many of the already mentioned
Alaska Aeuronatical Industries (AAI) - flew communter service to smaller villages from ANC during the Wien Air Alaska strike. Its demise was prompted by a shortage of duct tape and an unscheduled stop on Mt. Iliamna.
Reeve Air Aleutian -- you don't know what flying really is all about untill you try to land at the far end of Alaska in a driving blizzard in a DC-6
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JerseyJoe
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Alaska Aeuronatical Industries (AAI) - flew communter service to smaller villages from ANC during the Wien Air Alaska strike. Its demise was prompted by a shortage of duct tape and an unscheduled stop on Mt. Iliamna.
Reeve Air Aleutian -- you don't know what flying really is all about untill you try to land at the far end of Alaska in a driving blizzard in a DC-6
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JerseyJoe
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Feb 16, 2002, 9:29 am
#69
Join Date: Mar 2000
Programs: Hy-Vee Fuel Saver
Posts: 404
We were on the original Midway on the last day it flew. As we flew home from Nassau on frequent flyer tickets, the flight attendants buzzed about the airline's future (a buyout by Northwest had fallen apart). The next morning, Midway announced that it had ceased operations. We are still grateful that we were not stuck in Nassau holding free tickets on a defunct airline.
We flew TWA & TWE on 12/1, which was the last day they flew under those names. We were ticketed on United, but United had canceled our flights in their post-9/11 cutbacks & they put us on TWA & TWE.
I flew once on Chicago Air, a commuter airline that operated for just a few months in 1986 before going bankrupt. The flight from Midway to Peoria to Springfield IL shook so violently and consistently that I barfed my guts out (only time I've done that on an airplane).
Also flew:
Britt
Canadian (loved those 15,000-mile aadvantage short-trip awards)
Eastern
Mississippi Valley
Piedmont
Reno (loved those 15,000-mile aadvantage awards)
Western
Jet America was great. They could never fill their STL-LAS flight, so a junket operator offered trips leaving Saturday morning & returning Sunday morning for $50 for those who put in 6 hours at the tables at the Riviera. It was fun to travel from St. Louis to Las Vegas with no luggage except my wallet!
Have flown charters to the Caribbean & Las Vegas on airlines that I had never heard of: Aristos, Buffalo, Evergreen, others I can't remember. Maybe they're still in business, maybe not.
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We flew TWA & TWE on 12/1, which was the last day they flew under those names. We were ticketed on United, but United had canceled our flights in their post-9/11 cutbacks & they put us on TWA & TWE.
I flew once on Chicago Air, a commuter airline that operated for just a few months in 1986 before going bankrupt. The flight from Midway to Peoria to Springfield IL shook so violently and consistently that I barfed my guts out (only time I've done that on an airplane).
Also flew:
Britt
Canadian (loved those 15,000-mile aadvantage short-trip awards)
Eastern
Mississippi Valley
Piedmont
Reno (loved those 15,000-mile aadvantage awards)
Western
Jet America was great. They could never fill their STL-LAS flight, so a junket operator offered trips leaving Saturday morning & returning Sunday morning for $50 for those who put in 6 hours at the tables at the Riviera. It was fun to travel from St. Louis to Las Vegas with no luggage except my wallet!
Have flown charters to the Caribbean & Las Vegas on airlines that I had never heard of: Aristos, Buffalo, Evergreen, others I can't remember. Maybe they're still in business, maybe not.
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Feb 16, 2002, 9:30 am
#70
Join Date: Feb 2000
Posts: 116
Interesting topic. In my thirty-five years of air travel I recall the following:
Eastern, Western, Trans Texas, Texas International, Braniff, Southern, Ozark, Piedmont, People Express, Pan Am, Allegheny, Republic, Western Pacific, Mark Air, Reeves Aleutian, TWA, BOAC, National, PSA, Reno, Hughes, Canadian Pacific, Mid Pacific, Wein Air.
I suspect there may be a couple of more that don't readily come to mind.
Eastern, Western, Trans Texas, Texas International, Braniff, Southern, Ozark, Piedmont, People Express, Pan Am, Allegheny, Republic, Western Pacific, Mark Air, Reeves Aleutian, TWA, BOAC, National, PSA, Reno, Hughes, Canadian Pacific, Mid Pacific, Wein Air.
I suspect there may be a couple of more that don't readily come to mind.
Feb 16, 2002, 10:34 am
#71
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Reno, Nevada
Posts: 7,368
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Tyler Durden:
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Western
Air Cal
PSA
Reno (of course)
Mike
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Feb 16, 2002, 10:45 am
#72
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Location: Washington, DC
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by anrkitec:
Southern (nobody remembers these guys, Airliners.net doesn't even have a photo for them. They had some pretty snazzy DC-9's though)
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Southern (nobody remembers these guys, Airliners.net doesn't even have a photo for them. They had some pretty snazzy DC-9's though)
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http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=160663
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=176431
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=103468
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=103468
The last one is a really old livery from the early 60's.
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Feb 16, 2002, 12:39 pm
#73
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Great Britain
Posts: 1,442
This is fun...sad but fun.
Olley Airways
Morton Air Services
(Am I the only Board Member to have flown out of Croydon Airport?)
Pegasus Airways
British United
British Caledonian
BEA
Air Inter (Dont think they've been mentioned)
TAT
Swissair
Gill Air
Air Uk
Suckling Airways
Dan Air (best Club Class in the sky)
British Airtours
TWA
Braniff
Canadian Pacific
Western
Air Jet (all First Class LCY-CDG superb service)
Manx Airways
Air Europe (I never flew Laker)
Excalibur
Air California (when I flew it)
Golden West Airlines (I think that's what it was called)
Caledonian Airways
Eastern airlines
Western
Cie Air Transport
Silver City Airways
British Air Ferries (these three deserve special mention. In Britain you could fly your car to France in the late 50s early 60s from Lydd to Le Touquet in Bristol Superfreighters, and later with converted DC7s (remember in the film Goldfinger) called Carvairs to further afield (Geneva) as I recall).
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Olley Airways
Morton Air Services
(Am I the only Board Member to have flown out of Croydon Airport?)
Pegasus Airways
British United
British Caledonian
BEA
Air Inter (Dont think they've been mentioned)
TAT
Swissair
Gill Air
Air Uk
Suckling Airways
Dan Air (best Club Class in the sky)
British Airtours
TWA
Braniff
Canadian Pacific
Western
Air Jet (all First Class LCY-CDG superb service)
Manx Airways
Air Europe (I never flew Laker)
Excalibur
Air California (when I flew it)
Golden West Airlines (I think that's what it was called)
Caledonian Airways
Eastern airlines
Western
Cie Air Transport
Silver City Airways
British Air Ferries (these three deserve special mention. In Britain you could fly your car to France in the late 50s early 60s from Lydd to Le Touquet in Bristol Superfreighters, and later with converted DC7s (remember in the film Goldfinger) called Carvairs to further afield (Geneva) as I recall).
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Feb 16, 2002, 1:00 pm
#74
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Allentown, PA USA
Programs: Northwest-millionair; Marriott, lifetime gold
Posts: 578
Domestic: Republic, National (the old one), Pan Am, TWA, Piedmont, Allegheny ("The correct time is: Little hand on the two, big hand on the four), New York Air, Eastern, People Express.
International: Interflug, Aeroflot (Soviet version), Loftleidir (Iceland Air), Sabena, Swiss Air, BOAC, DAN Air, Ghana Air (if they are not out of business yet, they should be).
International: Interflug, Aeroflot (Soviet version), Loftleidir (Iceland Air), Sabena, Swiss Air, BOAC, DAN Air, Ghana Air (if they are not out of business yet, they should be).