Air Anglia - used to love those flights out of NWI to AMS - it was our own little escape route to the big bad world outside of sleepy Norfolk...

Nowadays any Tom, Dick or Harriet can jet off from anywhere but those flights from Norwich always felt like the best kept secret in Norfolk....:}

GGR
 

I have a soft spot for Air Europe. Travelled with them from MAN to MCO way back in the late eighties on a B757 which, in those days was trail blazing. 6 hours and 20 minutes from MAN to Bangor then 3 hours from Bangor to Orlando. The standard of service was excellent, way higher than what you would dare to expect today.

Bring back Air Wales, my first job.

Definitely PSA!!!! (pacific southwest airlines)
Being a pilot from San Diego...this would have been my number one choice!!

and whod have thought flybe was grown from SPACEGRAND, your local airline. with midget hosties for the twin otters.

My Canadian relations reckon Wardair.

They were better than the scheduled competition at the time.

BRING BACK MAERSK AIR BHX PLEASE.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../0/0176087.jpg

Debonair

I Miss Them :ugh:

Aeroflot and their TU134's, TU104's at Terminal 2 EGLL :eek:

What about Air Israel:

http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddent.../2009/02/3.jpg

....I'll get me coat!

Air Anglia
Eastern Airways no 1.
Peregrine Aviation (not strictly an airline)
Gill Airways
Air UK
Caledoneon Airways
Dan Air
Go
Air Europa

If any of these airlines were brought back, would the travelling public notice? Are the brands not too old and forgotten to be of any value?

Caledonian appears alot, but the brand was last used in the dim and distant past as a charter operator, and BCal disappeared in 1988, do the brands still carry enough weight to have a relevance today?

Discuss.

Flypuppy
 

A very interesting question.

I guess this forum is pushing emotional responses because we all work or have a passion for the industry so to actually consider which airline would benefit the public again, or resonate with the public it becomes more difficult. They all disappeared for a reason after all!

I would say that the following UK airlines from a brand equity/power perspective could come back and be loved again:

Dan Air
Air Europe
Britannia
Air UK

ps: I miss Jersey European Airways F27's

Ok, going to show my age now :mad:

Air Spain with my cousin the DC8's
BMA Viscounts and DC9-10's
Germania BAC1-11's
London European Viscount
Altair Caravelle's
Air Bridge Vanguards (2300 to Dublin from Luton - superb sound)
Aviaco stretched cousins again !

XL - a year to the day since we went under!! :{:{

My 10c worth...
 

Laker Skytrain!!!!!

Flying Tigers and CP Air. What a fantastic colour scheme
CP had.

Flying colours and Go!

Yes DC-9-32, those Altair Caravelles but not forgetting their DC-8s. Talking of DC-8s- Air Spain in those wonderful colours. What about Channel Airways Golden Viscounts and Invicta Vanguards doing MoD flights to Dusseldorf and Lourdes Pilgrim flights. Plus Sterling Caravelles in their droves at Luton in the 1970s.
Going back even further Spantax DC-7s and SAM DC-6s at Gatwick with the Wardair B727 coming all the way from Canada!

Just thought I'd mention British Air Ferries -I loved working with, and flying around on those wonderful Rolls Royce Dart powered Viscounts and Heralds (I can still close my eyes and hear the whine of those turboprops). :cool: Plus my first job in ops from school - great:)

Great flights on them plying back and forth to/from the Channel Islands on Summer weekends in the early to mid 1980s, Ostend, Basle, Milan and Lourdes to name but a few places.