Airlines no longer operating

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by Capetonian

Who was the airline that operated car carriers across the channel from Kent (Lydd?) to somewhere in northern France - it might have been Le Touquet.

This went through several iterations of name. Started in the 1950s as Silver City Airways, operating from Lydd to Le Touquet, while a competitive servce was started by Freddie Laker's original company Air Charter's as subsidiary Channel Air Bridge from Southend to Calais and Ostend. Both later expanded elsewhere as well. Both had the Bristol Freighter as their mainstream fleet, but Laker then did some home-made rebuilds of DC4s as the Carvair.

The two carriers got merged up, along with several other airlines, into British United Airways, and the combined operation was branded as such, then the car services was renamed as British United Air Ferries (BUAF), and the Cravars covered both departure points. The market fell away substantially each year as new car-ferry ships came into service, and finally the operation was sold off as British Air Ferries (BAF), which ultimately got out of the cross-channel business altogether and went on to be a major ACMI charter operator.

[Krakatoa]

There was Chieftain Airways out of Glasgow 1987. Operated for six weeks.

[Hussar 54]

Air Jet

EI-BUD mentioned Air Jet....

Eventually swallowed up into TNT along with most of Jet Services International....

Worked for them for a few years after thinking that F27's were a step up from B99's at TAT, which is another to add to the list....Should have stayed put, as I was still flogging around on the F27 when my mates were working on shiny, newish F28's and, I believe, but I'm open to correction here, wearing shiny, newish BA uniforms....

[The SSK]

TAT was certainly a BA franchisee for a while, I did a Brussels-Nice roundtrip with them once, I don’t think the F28s were so shiny then.

[thrubwell]

cambrian

no one seems to have mentioned them yet..if you have i apologise

[Planemike]

From East Africa (Kenya), we have............

Wilson Airways (ceased operations in 1939 at start of WWII)
East African Airways (bankrupt 1977) ................

Planemike

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by thrubwell

Cambrian

no one seems to have mentioned them yet..if you have i apologise

But not forgotten - because they did my first ever flight, and so, having started the fascination, got me into all this in the first place.

Vickers Viscount 700 G-AMOO Liverpool to Isle of Man. About 20 minutes airborne (almost visible from one another on a clear day). Four engines ...... !

[dingle dongle]

In Australia in my memory.

Australian National Airlines .
Guinea Airways .
Queensland Airlines .
Butler Air Transport . All sucked into Ansett
MacRobinson Miller Airlines .
Mandated Airlines .
-----------------------------------------------------------

Trans Australian Airlines .
Ansett . Murdered by a vindictive Prime Minister.
East West Airlines .

[Anilv]

Worked in SIN in the early nineties, I remember Air Swazi Cargo which used to fly betwegen SIN and MTS, Manzini in Swaziland. This routing was neccessary to get around the embarago which was in force against South Africa at the time.

This flight was operated back-to-back with the Air Hong Kong (pre CX), some of the load was transloaded in SIN and that was how South Africa got its VCRs in the bad old days.

Air Swazi Cargo - a/c were 3d-ASC and ASB. Two letter airline code was GK.

Air Hong Kong operated VR-HKK and HKL and if I am not mistaken HKG as well. Two letter code was LD and airline number was 288.


Anil

[Basil]

thrubwell,
As I guess you will be aware, Cambrian and Northeast together with BOAC and BEA merged to form British Airways in 1974.

[Coquelet]

Sabena
BUAF
Channel Airways
Lebanese International
Spantax
Swissair
Sterling
Delta Air Transport
BEA
BAF
BIAS
Intra Airways
BUIA
Rig Air
Linjeflyg
Pan American
Balair
Loftleidir
BIA
Dan Air
Pomair
Aviaco
British Caledonian
TEA
Cruzeiro do Sul
VASP
Britannia
TWA
International Air Bahamas
General Air
Braniff
Air Inter
Sobelair
Itavia
Air Zaïre
EBA
Virgin Express
VLM
Clickair

[Saint-Ex]

I can`t find Ace Freighters or Ace Scotland in previous lists.

[C118BFE]

I worked for parttime-Slick and Zantopp.Strictly on a "fix me,I'm broke" mechanic position @ NAS Dallas,TX.

[Carnydude]

and another one....

I recall flying on holiday to Spain in the 80's with a company called Orion Airways, a B 737 I think. Don't think that operates now.

[brakedwell]

Orion was absorbed by Britannia in 1988. Another UK charter airline, Paramount (MD80's), started operating in May1987 and went bust in 1989.

[irishair2001]

Howabout,

Air Spain
Progressive Airways
Clyden Airways
Air Trans Africa
CargOman
Eirjet
JetGreen
Treffield International
Maitland Drewery
Air Siam
Air Commerz
Germanair
Bavaria Flug
TransPolar
Sud Flug International
Atlantis
Manx Airlines
Hispania
Aviaco
African Safari Airways
Hot Air
Blue Scandinavia
T A E
Transeuropa
Viva
Centennial
Nortjet
Lineas Aereas Canarias
Canafrica
AirSur
Oasis
Air Europa Express
Translift/ TransAer

[Capetonian]

Some interesting shots of ex-Interflug aircraft in Germany, commentary in German but worth watching even venn you are nicht Cherman schpeaking.

[Derwent Dale]

The one's I worked for are :

BMA
T.E.A.(UK)
Excalibur
Debonair
Britannia
BA Connect

[seacue]

I was SLF on 8 airlines on Coquelet's list. Plus PSA and Agony/Allegheny

[Jerbourg]

A few now defunct airlines I've flown on..


Euroair
British Midland
Guernsey Airlines
Helios
Baltic Airlines (UK)
Novair International
Air Europe Express
TAT
Inter European Airways
British World Airlines
Excalibur
B'Cal & B'cal Helicopters
British Air Ferries
Air UK