The Defunct Airlines Thread

[Stevicus]

Inspired by this thread: Things Rarely Seen Anymore

One of my old favorites:

An airline pilot radios to the tower and asks for the local time. The tower radios back:

"What airline are you?"
"What difference does it make?"
"Well, if you're United Airlines, it's 1:00pm. If you're TWA, it's 1300 hours. If you're Allegheny, the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 1."

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Pan Am logo in Blade Runner:

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Oooh...the big one here (Australia) is Ansett.

A Brief History Of The Rise And Fall Of Ansett Australia

 

[Stevicus]

National Airlines was famous for their "fly me" advertisements.

 

[Revoltingest]

Dead in 2001.....

 

[Twilight Hue]

Air South. As south is a dirty word in the flying industry. And boy, did they go south.

 

[sun rise]

There are more than I ever dreamed Category:Defunct airlines of the United States - Wikipedia

 

[Stevicus]

This airline used to advertise itself as "the flying banana"

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Pan Am logo in Blade Runner:

Pan Am was also featured in 2001, A Space Odyssey...
Orion III spaceplane

Airfix model of the Orion III spaceplane.
The Orion III is a fictional passenger spaceplane seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is a two-stage spacecraft launched on a reusable winged booster. It is equipped with aerospike rocket engines and jet engines for atmospheric flight. Pan American World Airways operates the Orion III, just as it operates the Aries Ib. In early stages of planning for the film, the spaceplane's engines on the back were designed to break away from the passenger section of the plane.[4][6][7]

 

[Vinayaka]

Wardair had free booze on their holiday destinations. We left Honolulu at 10 PM ... pilot said 'current temperature in Honolulu 84 degrees, current temperature in Edmonton, -40 degrees. I think that flight may have ran out of booze.