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I was thinking the other day of all the late, great airlines I used to fly. I miss a lot of them and, in fact, still "fly" the vintage birds in MS Flight Sim. I thought a fun thread might be memories of airlines we've flown that no longer with us.
Okay, here goes my list:
North Eastern (the "yellow birds")
National Airlines (probably my favorite. "Fly me")
Pan Am
TWA
Eastern
Piedmont
Ozark
New York Air (free bagels and an NY Times on each flight)
Arrow Air (I don't miss them!)
ATA
Spirit
Song
Spirit is still flying - not defunct.
oopps....I meant Kiwi
Eastern (DC-9 Whisperjet !) 1st time in '69,DCA out of LGA ! TWA 707 IDL-LAX (Nov.'60 1st flight six weeks old),PanAm,jumpseat out of DFW-JFK ,'91 weeks before the shutdown a 727-200,Capitol DC-8,'80 JFK-ORD, JetAmerica '85 LGB-ORD(MD-80),Piedmont,many times in the jumpseat, 737s,727, Day-LGA,EWR,JFK, and finally Champion,in all 3 seats,in the lovely 727,2000-2008, all over the hemisphere,God bless !
Kiwi (EWR-MCO)
Eastwind (TTN-MCO)
ATA
America West
TWA and Pan Am are the only defunct airlines that I have flown I believe.
Piedmont to/from Myrtle Beach in a 737-200.
Eastern (L1011 and 752/lots EWR-SFO)
Carnival (732/EWR-FLL)
the Braniff incarnation that was around in the early 90s (727/EWR-FLL)
Piedmont (actually one of their commuter carriers) [SF3/EWR-SLK]
Brockway (1900/EWR-SLK)
I also flew Canadian's 732 (YUL-ORD) after the merger with Air Canada, but before anything was integrated, much like how legacy HP is now in US's network.
Does Northwest count yet?
Midway (2nd one) I think it was a CRJ2/B73G (wish I could find out what i did fly) PHL-RDU-FLL and back Summer of 98'
In no particliar order.
National (the original Sun King)
National (the LAS 757 one)
Pan Am (the original)
Pan Am 3 (the A-300 only one)
Eastern
Braniff (the original)
Braniff 2 (the 727-200 only one)
TWA
Western
MGM Grand Air
Empire
Midway (the second one)
America West
Republic
Frontier Horizon
Muse Air
Pride Air
Jet America
PSA
Air Cal
Air Florida
Atlantic Gulf (Viscount)
Rich Air
All Star
PBA
Dolphin
Executive
Florida Airlines (DC-3)
The above 4 where Florida commuters.
The below are the defunct airlines I flew on and worked for
National Florida NFA
Northeastern
Florida Express
and the best airline I ever flew on
PIEDMONT
Cheers
LGA777
TWA (LGA-PBI r/t)
Carnival (JFK-MIA r/t)
To speak for my father, he has flown on Delta Express a few times from ISP-MCO r/t
Heres mine:
Tower Air
Carnival
TWA
Eastern
Pan Am
ATA
Kiwi
Song
ATA
TWA
considering i'm still rather young...
PAA
ATA
TWA
Tower
ATA
SONG
song had awesome IFE
Pan Am (The real one)
TWA
Western
JAT (original pre civil war and break up while Tito was still alive)
National (The original)
Eastern
Mohawk
Allegheny (the MDT based wholly owned merged into Piedmont)
Business Express
Pacific Island Aviation
Ansett
America West
and sometime within the next 2 years we can add Northwest
Eastern Air Line (several times)
my first flight ever, 1976 EWR-ATL-MCO-JFK
Last time I flew Eastern, January 1990 MIA-EWR 757-200
PeoplExpress (several times)
NY Air (DCA-TPA, IAD-MCO, IAD-EWR, DCA-LGA, EWR-TPA, EWR-DCA)
Piedmont (EWR-BOS)
Pan Am (EWR-TPA DC-10, TPA-EWR L1011-500)
NWA (soon to be Delta) HNL-MSP AUG, 2008.
EAL, Pan Am, TWA, Trump Shuttle,
This Part two for LGA777
When I made my list last night I remembered some more later last night and a few more today.
Western Pacific
Kiwi
ATA
Markair
Britt (F-27)
Song
Eastern Shuttle
Trump Shuttle
Great post guys, bringing back many great memories.
Cheers
LGA777
Pan Am 1985
Swissair 1996
my first flight on an aircraft;
Mohawk convair 440
Piedmont
Eastern shuttle
People Express
Mall Airlines (upstate NY) Shorts 330 I think
Eastern - DC-9, A300, L1011
TWA - 747-200
America West - 757 (Ohio R W B scheme), A319, A320
NY Air - MD80
National Airlines - DC-10