What now defunct airlines have you flown on?

What now defunct airlines have you flown on?

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Screenwash

82 posts

23 months

Saturday 20th April
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Maersk Air. (I did Gatwick to Copenhagen every Thursday for a couple of years…)

2172cc

1,110 posts

98 months

Saturday 20th April
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We flew to Italy with Dan Air on a Comet 4C when I was a kid. Always loved look of the Comet

Castrol for a knave

4,715 posts

92 months

Saturday 20th April
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Flown on a quite a few of the ones mentioned, plus

Braniff
TWA
TAM - the quasi civilian bit of the Bolivian military
LAB Bolivia

Pincher

8,572 posts

218 months

Saturday 20th April
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Pincher said:
British Air Ferries is the only one for me that I’ve not seen listed already.
For some reason, I feel sure that I may have flown Laker at some point as well, as a child.

WyrleyD

1,913 posts

149 months

Saturday 20th April
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Invicta (Vickers Viking from Manston)
British Caledonian
Dan Air (Comet 4)
Court (Clarksons)
Brittania Airways
Monarch
British Midland
Air UK
Airtours
Britannia
TWA
Pan Am (1st Class LHR-FRA in first week of 747 operations, James Garner was in the seat behind me)
Braniff
SAA
Varig
Alitalia
Olympic Airways
BOAC and BEA (do these count?)


Edited by WyrleyD on Saturday 20th April 08:40 to add a few more


Edited by WyrleyD on Saturday 20th April 08:43

ecsrobin

17,133 posts

166 months

Saturday 20th April
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Scotair - Dornier 328
Monarch
Flybe
European - BAC 1-11

Probably a few others that I can’t remember.

Just remembered another.

Ryan International Airlines

Edited by ecsrobin on Saturday 20th April 09:25

patmahe

5,754 posts

205 months

Saturday 20th April
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Aer Arann Galway (Ireland) to Edinburgh

Rough101

1,742 posts

76 months

Saturday 20th April
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Air 2000
British Caledonian
British Airtours
British Midland
Dan Air
Monarch
BMI Baby
Britannia
Flybe
Thomas Cook
Sabena
Alitalia
Cross air (least professional airline by a mile)

w1bbles

1,003 posts

137 months

Saturday 20th April
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Many of the above. The only other one that I can't see in the various lists is:

BWIA (Bee Wee)

valiant

10,263 posts

161 months

Saturday 20th April
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Monarch
Thomas Cook
PanAm. (Was the Lockerbie plane as well but a year before)

2 GKC

1,901 posts

106 months

Saturday 20th April
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Paramount Airways MD-83 from Bristol to Tenerife in the late 80s. Bristol based airline didn’t last long.


Acorn1

653 posts

21 months

Saturday 20th April
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BOAC
British Caledonian
Pan Am
Laker Airways


captain_cynic

12,060 posts

96 months

Saturday 20th April
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Ansett

seawise

2,147 posts

207 months

Saturday 20th April
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Mostly long haul travel thus :

-Peoples Express
-Laker
-Pan Am
-TWA
-British Caledonian
-Northwest
-Continental
-Braniff
-Eastern
-Airflorida
-Olympic
-SAA
-BWIA
-Alitalia
-Sabena
-Monarch
-Swissair
-Air Europe
-Flybe
-Dan Air
-Britannia
-Go!
-British Midland
-Maersk Air

There are probably a load more, but my brain hurts now.


Aunty Pasty

622 posts

39 months

Saturday 20th April
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Oasis Airlines did cheap flights to Hong Kong.

klootzak

624 posts

217 months

Saturday 20th April
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Most of mine have already been mentioned ...

British Midland
Britannia
Monarch
Northwest
Dan Air
Pan Am
Alitalia
Ansett

But I haven't seen ...
Excalibur (757)
Air Cymru (BAC1-11)

Gunso

1,087 posts

251 months

Saturday 20th April
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In addition to many of the above ...

Leisure International.


Zaichik

109 posts

37 months

Saturday 20th April
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Simrik Air (ktm to vnlk)

Jordie Barretts sock

4,173 posts

20 months

Saturday 20th April
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Dan Air
British Midland
Jersey European and British European and FlyBe
Air 2000 (which became Tui I think)
Egyptair

I'm sure there are many more, can't remember.

craig1912

3,316 posts

113 months

Saturday 20th April
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Only two I can’t see for me

Adria DC9 (Manchester to Ljubljana for £19 return)
Balkan Tuplov TU154