Airlines You'd Like to Bring Back

[Mr Oleo Strut]

BOAC - for their effortless and quite unjustified delusions of superiority
BEA - for sublime champagne cocktails
Alitalia - for introducing the world to Ferrero Rochas chocolates
British Eagle - for the triumph of cheerfulness over efficiency
Pan Am - for introducing stereo piped sound on board, and their club sandwiches
Syrian Arab - for providing the finest of desert dates
Air India - for the most heavenly hostesses
Aeroflot - for the best bomber/passenger conversions and biggest hostesses
Channel Express - for operating the Heavenly Dart Herald, long after most everybody else had given it up
Aer Lingus - for making green an acceptable airline colour
South West Air - for the wonderful smoke and flames of the start-up of their DC3
Court Line - for the banshee howl of Halcyon Days
And finally,
Air France - for the Caravelle tail parachute and the sheer ugliness of the Bregeut Deux-Ponts