What now defunct airlines have you flown on?

[demic]

Spanair

[V8LM]

First 747 flight was on this in August, 1973:

MANCHESTER 17 APRIL 1982 WARDAIR BOEING 747 C-FDJC by simon butler, on Flickr

[James_P]

Peach Air as a child from Gatwick to Italy

Had to look them up again, operated for 2 years in 97/98

[Bradgate]

RIP

[Narcisus]

About 80% of the airlines listed so far plus

Eastern - L1011 / 727
Orion Airways - 737

[RATATTAK]

Nigeria Airways

[psi310398]

Many of the above but can add East African Airways.

[Muddle238]

BWIA - British West Indies. It was on a bright green and yellow A340, I believe the whole shebang became was is today Carribean Airlines or Airways, but the A340s are long gone.

GB Airways, that was on an Airbus of some sort into Madeira.

FlyBe on their Crash-8.

[Moulder]

Silk Air. Vague recollections of flying Hong Kong to London for approx. £200 on an old 747 around 2006.

Bhoja Air. Karachi to Lahore for a sevens tournament. Stairs folded down from the tail on a supposedly ex Aeroflot plane. Flight OK but unconcious for 6 hours just after landing from a a bug I picked up on the flight. Made it on for the final where we got cuffed by a school team from Bangladesh, great days

[marine boy]

Chalk's Ocean Airways

Seaplane service flying between the Bahamas and Florida

[alangla]

British Midland/BMI. First flight was Glasgow to Jersey on one of their 737s, also flew on their A320s when they used to offer a better Business Class service than BA on the Heathrow route.
Jersey European 146/FlyBe dash 8
Stobart Air ATR72
Thomas Cook A321. Always a slightly nicer way to get to the Canaries.
BA Connect Embraer 145

[Eric Mc]

MXRod said:

This was back around 1972 ,I was sure it was a Britania , another thing unless the years have clouded my memory , the seating was grouped 4 seats around a table

The CL44 and Britannia were very similar. The main differences were the engines and the cockpit windows. The CL44 was longer as well.

There is a possibility that Loftleider might have leased a Britannia but they weren’t part of their regular fleet.

[ChocolateFrog]

I always remember my mum nicknaming Dan Air as Dan Dare.

Think it stemmed from a puncture on landing one time.

[LotusOmega375D]

Many of the aforementioned ones including Court Line, but no-one has yet mentioned Cirrus Airlines. I took what I think was their first ever flight from Stansted to Leipzig in an Embraer 145 jet. At check-in, I asked if the flight was busy. “Not particularly”, came the reply, “you will be the only passenger on board!” Sure enough it was just me and the flight crew. The stewardesses didn’t bother with the safety briefing and just sat and chatted with me. I think there were 3 passengers on the return flight. Cirrus soon cancelled the route and went bust in 2012.

[MXRod]

Eric Mc said:

MXRod said:

This was back around 1972 ,I was sure it was a Britania , another thing unless the years have clouded my memory , the seating was grouped 4 seats around a table

The CL44 and Britannia were very similar. The main differences were the engines and the cockpit windows. The CL44 was longer as well.

There is a possibility that Loftleider might have leased a Britannia but they weren’t part of their regular fleet.

I bow to your knowledge ,

[matchmaker]

Thomas Cook. A 757 (or was it a 767) on our honeymoon in 1985.

[KelWedge]

Two not mentioned before, from me showing my age

Air Anglia
Peters Aviation

[kimducati]

Don't think anyone's mentioned Silver City Airlines.
I flew with them from Lydd to Le Tourquet as a child probably three times - unforgettable experience!!

[paulmakin]

In addition to some already mentioned i can add LIAT who closed the doors for good (maybe) earlier ths year

[Eric Mc]

KelWedge said:

Two not mentioned before, from me showing my age

Air Anglia
Peters Aviation

Air Anglia merged with BIA to form Air UK.