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eal401
2008-11-20, 04:43 PM
I was thinking the other day of all the late, great airlines I used to fly. I miss a lot of them and, in fact, still "fly" the vintage birds in MS Flight Sim. I thought a fun thread might be memories of airlines we've flown that no longer with us.

Okay, here goes my list:

North Eastern (the "yellow birds")
National Airlines (probably my favorite. "Fly me")
Pan Am
TWA
Eastern
Piedmont
Ozark
New York Air (free bagels and an NY Times on each flight)
Arrow Air (I don't miss them!)
ATA
Spirit
Song

MarkLawrence
2008-11-20, 05:02 PM
Spirit is still flying - not defunct.

eal401
2008-11-20, 05:03 PM
oopps....I meant Kiwi

727C47
2008-11-20, 05:45 PM
Eastern (DC-9 Whisperjet !) 1st time in '69,DCA out of LGA ! TWA 707 IDL-LAX (Nov.'60 1st flight six weeks old),PanAm,jumpseat out of DFW-JFK ,'91 weeks before the shutdown a 727-200,Capitol DC-8,'80 JFK-ORD, JetAmerica '85 LGB-ORD(MD-80),Piedmont,many times in the jumpseat, 737s,727, Day-LGA,EWR,JFK, and finally Champion,in all 3 seats,in the lovely 727,2000-2008, all over the hemisphere,God bless !

pgengler
2008-11-20, 06:00 PM
Kiwi (EWR-MCO)
Eastwind (TTN-MCO)

Matt Molnar
2008-11-20, 06:10 PM
ATA
America West

Iberia A340-600
2008-11-20, 07:11 PM
TWA and Pan Am are the only defunct airlines that I have flown I believe.

lijk604
2008-11-20, 08:06 PM
Piedmont to/from Myrtle Beach in a 737-200.

Mateo
2008-11-20, 08:47 PM
Eastern (L1011 and 752/lots EWR-SFO)
Carnival (732/EWR-FLL)
the Braniff incarnation that was around in the early 90s (727/EWR-FLL)
Piedmont (actually one of their commuter carriers) [SF3/EWR-SLK]
Brockway (1900/EWR-SLK)

I also flew Canadian's 732 (YUL-ORD) after the merger with Air Canada, but before anything was integrated, much like how legacy HP is now in US's network.

Does Northwest count yet?

PHL Approach
2008-11-20, 09:28 PM
Midway (2nd one) I think it was a CRJ2/B73G (wish I could find out what i did fly) PHL-RDU-FLL and back Summer of 98'

LGA777
2008-11-20, 10:17 PM
In no particliar order.

National (the original Sun King)
National (the LAS 757 one)
Pan Am (the original)
Pan Am 3 (the A-300 only one)
Eastern
Braniff (the original)
Braniff 2 (the 727-200 only one)
TWA
Western
MGM Grand Air
Empire
Midway (the second one)
America West
Republic
Frontier Horizon
Muse Air
Pride Air
Jet America
PSA
Air Cal
Air Florida
Atlantic Gulf (Viscount)
Rich Air
All Star
PBA
Dolphin
Executive
Florida Airlines (DC-3)
The above 4 where Florida commuters.

The below are the defunct airlines I flew on and worked for

National Florida NFA
Northeastern
Florida Express
and the best airline I ever flew on
PIEDMONT

Cheers

LGA777

JetBlueAirwaysFan
2008-11-20, 10:55 PM
TWA (LGA-PBI r/t)
Carnival (JFK-MIA r/t)

To speak for my father, he has flown on Delta Express a few times from ISP-MCO r/t

Lezam
2008-11-20, 11:05 PM
Heres mine:

Tower Air
Carnival
TWA
Eastern
Pan Am
ATA
Kiwi
Song

PhilDernerJr
2008-11-20, 11:07 PM
ATA
TWA

cancidas
2008-11-21, 12:41 AM
considering i'm still rather young...

PAA
ATA
TWA

Adeel
2008-11-21, 04:22 AM
Tower
ATA
SONG

song had awesome IFE

Smartass Flyboy
2008-11-21, 04:24 AM
Pan Am (The real one)
TWA
Western
JAT (original pre civil war and break up while Tito was still alive)
National (The original)
Eastern
Mohawk
Allegheny (the MDT based wholly owned merged into Piedmont)
Business Express
Pacific Island Aviation
Ansett
America West
and sometime within the next 2 years we can add Northwest

STT757
2008-11-21, 11:41 AM
Eastern Air Line (several times)
my first flight ever, 1976 EWR-ATL-MCO-JFK
Last time I flew Eastern, January 1990 MIA-EWR 757-200

PeoplExpress (several times)

NY Air (DCA-TPA, IAD-MCO, IAD-EWR, DCA-LGA, EWR-TPA, EWR-DCA)

Piedmont (EWR-BOS)

Pan Am (EWR-TPA DC-10, TPA-EWR L1011-500)

NWA (soon to be Delta) HNL-MSP AUG, 2008.

Ari707
2008-11-21, 01:40 PM
EAL, Pan Am, TWA, Trump Shuttle,

LGA777
2008-11-21, 03:40 PM
This Part two for LGA777

When I made my list last night I remembered some more later last night and a few more today.

Western Pacific
Kiwi
ATA
Markair
Britt (F-27)
Song
Eastern Shuttle
Trump Shuttle

Great post guys, bringing back many great memories.

Cheers

LGA777

Delta777LR
2008-11-22, 12:20 AM
Pan Am 1985
Swissair 1996

bluejuice
2008-11-22, 10:36 AM
my first flight on an aircraft;
Mohawk convair 440
Piedmont
Eastern shuttle
People Express
Mall Airlines (upstate NY) Shorts 330 I think

N75715
2008-11-22, 01:41 PM
Eastern - DC-9, A300, L1011
TWA - 747-200
America West - 757 (Ohio R W B scheme), A319, A320
NY Air - MD80
National Airlines - DC-10