Airlines no longer operating

[pppdrive]

Looking at all of the Airlines I have flown on, I noticed that the vast majority of them are no longer operating. Perhaps I'm a jinx on the aviation industry !! My list for anyone who is interested;

Air Ferry, BKS Air Transport, British Eagle, Trans Union, Channel Airways, Air Spain, British United Airways, all of whom have ceased ops. Monarch (still operating), Skyways Coach Air, BOAC (still operating as BA), Ansett, TAA (now part of Qantas), Pan-Am, American Airlines (still operating), Air New Zealand (still operating), BCAL, British Airways (still operating), MAS (still operating), Arkia (still operating), Air Bridge Carriers (now Air Contractors), Aer Mediterranean, Britannia (now Thomsons), Altair, Air Europe, Sunstate (now part of Qantas), Flight West, Majestic Airways, Garuda (still operating), Easyjet (still operating), Spanair (still operating), Onurair (still operating), Flybe (still operating), Manx2 (FLM Aviation & Vanair) (still operating).

So, a hefty percentage that I've flown on have ceased. Anyone else like to add their details just out of interest.
Paul

[wieesso]

Modern Air
Flugzeugbilder.de Suche: Airline: Modern Air
Flew twice with one of their Convair CV-990
Martin

[mally35]

Lloyd International

Donaldson

[purplehelmet]

dan-air, british airtours, air ops international, airtours,futura,air plus comet,air 2000.

[Capetonian]

I think for many of us, naming all those we've flown on would just become a long boring list and end up as willy-waving contest.

A few I've flown on that no longer exist are :

Flitestar (ZA)
Nationwide (ZA)
Air Cape (ZA) (absorbed by SAA)
CAA (Rhodesia) (split into 3)
Air Rhodesia (became Air Zimbuggered)
EAA (Kenya) (split into 3)
BCAL (GB)
DanAir (GB)
Laker Airways (GB)
PanAm
TWA
PSA (US)
Allegheny (US)
UTA (FR)
CP Air (CA)
Sabena

Must be more I can't think of.

[paulc]

Have flown on the following airlines that are no longer around

Dan Air
Laker
Britannia
British airtours
British Caledonian
Caledonian
TWA
Virgin Express
Wardair
Viva (spain)
Balkan (TU154)
Air UK
Ansett

[merlinxx]

Those that I have worked for from 1964 to 1984:

BUA (LGW), Dan Air (LGW & LTN), African Safari (NBO), BEA/British Airtours (LGW), Tradewinds (LGW), IAS/Bitish Cargo (LGW), UACI (JED)

Then gave up and went into Flt Ops Support

[crewmeal]

Among the regional ones:-

Birmingham Executive Airways
Birmingham European
Brymon
Maersk
BA regional

[Fly380]

mally35 wrote Lloyd International

Donaldson

Yep - worked for both of them.

[Cymmon]

Caledonian
Britannia
Aviogenex
Flying Colours
Air Inter
L'aeropostale (?)
Northwest (does this count?)
Aeroflot (Uzbek, Tadzik and Khazak directorates)
Janus Airways
Dan Air

[Level bust]

The following are no longer with us that I have flown with:

Channel A/W
Autair/Court Line
British Caledonian
Britannia (although now Thomson)
Euroair
London European
Pan Am
Inex Adria (Before they became Adria)
Manx
Air Europe Express
Air UK
City Flyer Express
Debonair
Royal A/L (Canada)
Silverjet

[Agaricus bisporus]

Don't forget that the mere fact they're not operating is not in itself always a bad thing.

Ths loss of Dan and particularly B. Cal and Go is tragic and much to be lamented, the loss of grubby little operations like Debonair and one half (the Western half) of Virgin Express is probably of great benefit to aviation. Pan Am and TWA were landmarks in sadness at the demise of historic names though also in chronic mismanagement, yet there are also dreadful companies still surviving that have no right to.

C'est a vie.

[NG_Kaptain]

BWIA. Who I worked for.

[ericlday]

Flown on Braniff Airlines

[Capetonian]

A few others I remember flying on that no longer exist :

Interflug - the old East German carrier
CSA - Czechoslovak Airlines before the countries split
Swissair - the old one
Zambia Airways - the original one that split off from CAA
Zimex - a short lived domestic carrier in Zim
Aces - an excellent Colombian airline absorbed into Avianca

[Sir George Cayley]

Air Ferry
Invicta
Channel
Skyways Coach Air
Spacegrand
North Eastern (HS121)
Cambrian
Manchester Airways
Imperial

SGC

[tonytales]

A few more now extinct airlines-
Colonial Airlines (absorbed into Eastern)
Eastern Air Lines (spent 22 years there)
Mackey (absorbed into Eastern)
Caribair Puerto Rico - (absorbed by Eastern)
Prinair (flew in their DH Herons)
Trans Carribean (worked on their DC4, DC6, DC6B, DC8-51)
Panair do Brasil (worked on their L049)
Trans Atlantica Argentina (worked on their L-1649A)
CINTA (worked on their "Super" DC-4)
Overseas National (worked on their DC6, DC8s)
Coastal Cargo - (worked on their L049)
Seaboard and Western (became Seaboard World) worked their DC4, L1049D, CL-44)
Aerovias Halcon (Argentina) (worked on their C46)
VIASA - (worked their L1049)
Orion Air (USA) (worked for them)
Emery Worldwide (Orion Air flew B727 for them)
Worldways Canada (Eastern worked their L1011)
Pace Airlines (worked for them)
Tradewinds Airline (worked for them)

[ICT_SLB]

In the entrance to the Airport Hilton* at Dorval (Montreal), there's a wall built of rocks each one from an airlines' home area & with the contributing airlines' name etched into the surface. With a couple of exceptions, I doubt any of the airlines are still flying including Allegheny, Mohawk, Braniff, Piedmont & Wardair.

*A check on Google still shows its distinctive circular construction in the overhead photo but a note says that the hotel may have closed.

[Airclues]

GB Airways
Brymon
Morton Air Services
Skyways Coach-Air
BUA
BKS
British Eagle
Alidair
BOAC
BEA
TWA
Eastern Airlines
PSA

[Hen Ddraig]

Two which have not appeared so far

Starways
Canadian

I have used many othres but they have already been mentioned



Time to spare, go by air

Hen ddraig