Favorite Airline that is no more?

[CreekDog]

[MrScorpio]

1. I always wanted to fly Pan-AM when I was young

Seventeen Years Gone!

[qnr]

16. Gone is relative though. There's still the turboprop & 727 Pan Am Clipper charter, and:

Guilford Rail up in the northeast owns this, the Pan Am Railway.

[SoxFan]

38. Screw them

Owned by a bunch of right wing knobs. They named a coup;e of the planes "Clipper Ayn Rand" and "Clipper Ronald Reagan". yes, really.

Oh, and the railroad division is a bunch of arrogant jerks, too. They nearly derailed (pardon the expression) passenger rail service to southern NH.

[qnr]

40. Yeah, I think I've heard something about that. - As far as Pan Am goes, I still can't

see the "Met Life" building in Manhattan without saying WFT???

[Aristus]

20. I flew in a Pan-Am 747 over to Germany for my first overseas posting

in the Army. Another to Saudi Arabia for the Gulf War. A third over to England from Dover, Delaware for my terminal-leave vacation before ETS-ing from the service. Lots of good Pan-Am memories...


(And yes, the flight down to the Gulf was a good memory. PM me and I'll tell you about it...)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Pacific Southwest Airlines! or...PSA!

We always flew them from LA to SF when the kids were young...

Cheap, and fast!

:cry:

[CreekDog]

7. of course!

did you know they were absorbed by USAIR? some of their maintence crews are still working and guess what happens sometimes:

[DemoTex]

46. US Air bought PSA and Piedmont in 1988.

Two new US Airways Airbus A-319 aircraft in the PSA and Piedmont livery. A third US Airways Airbus A-319 sports the old Allegheny (USAir's predecessor) livery.

[greenbriar]

3. TWA

was always one I wanted to fly



I HATE american airlines

[CreekDog]

8. that's the first airline i flew

[trof]

41. Thanks. I flew for TWA from '68 till '94.

[cloudbase]

4. Texas International

[ashling]

21. Used to be TTA - Trans Texas Airways

We used to call it Tree Top Airlines :rofl:

[Hangingon]

32. I used to fly Tree Top out of Love Field

[DemoTex]

43. I flew TTA from Houston Hobby to Ft. Polk for basic training in 1968.

That was a bummer of a flight, but it had nothing to do with the airline. The flight attendant on that TTA CV-600 did her best to elevate the mood by getting us soldier-boys somewhat liquored up.

Trans Texas Airline changed its name to Texas International later in 1968.


TTA Convair 600 at KMSY (New Orleans)

[DemoTex]

45. BTW: TI was the springboard from which Frank Lorenzo launched his attacks on airline labor.

Frank Lorenzo's infamous Texas Air Corporation:

Texas International
Continental Airlines
Eastern Airlines
Peoples Express
Frontier
New York Air

Lorenzo ruined a handful of good airlines and fucked-up thousands of lives of good, decent, hard-working airline employees.


Frank Lorenzo

[libnnc]

5. they were always so nice to me when I was a kid

we'd fly to Florida at Christmas to visit my aunt and her family and the crews were always so cool

I miss Eastern

[Sugar Smack]

36. Eastern Airlines was wonderful when my bro & I were kids.

I hear you. Kids flying without adults got the royal treatment.

[Critters2]

6. Ozark

When I was a kid, my dad used to fly Ozark from the Quad Cities to other small airports for meetings with dealers and farmers (my dad designed farm equipment). He called it "Krazo" airlines, and would always joke about how LUCKY he felt to have made it home alive!

So, here's to Krazo Airlines! Thanks for the memories!

[Shakespeare]

9. Braniff!

The online airline whose planes sported designs by Alexander Calder:

[Robeson]

10. I grew up next to an airport that was practically in our back yard...

...I used to love looking at those different color Braniff planes coming and going!

[begin_within]

11. Both PSA and Air California were a gas.

I remember them announcing things like, "If you are caught smoking in the restroom, you will be asked to leave the plane immediately. Thank you for listening, and may the force be with you."

[pink-o]

44. I worked for USAirways in SFO soon after they had eaten PSA

Many of my co-workers were old PSA, and they made my job a blast! Great cool attitude, laid-back California vibe, and a mellow atmosphere.

Until the anal-retentive East Coast muckey-mucks got their paws on it.

I miss PSA, Pan Am, and Eastern Airlines.

[Zoigal]

12. TWA

Used to love to fly in the old Connie (Lockheed's Constellation). Great plane. z

[JCMach1]

31. Seconded... I remember actually getting out of the airport with two foot of snow

on the ground in St. Louis... Can anyone do that today? TWA was awesome.

[cordelia]

13. Southern Airways and Eastern Airlines

I worked for them both. And I miss them both after all these years.

Good times.

[pokerfan]

14. Cascade

[lizziegrace]

15. Skybus

They shut down operations 35 minutes ago. :(

[Scooter24]

17. Hooters Air

Never flown with this carrier, but it sounds cool :)

[Yurovsky]

39. Bastards got hot wing sauce all over my luggage ...

and to make matters worse, they were out of blue cheese dressing.

BTW my stewardess had the IQ of a baloney sammich. I hope the pilot was a little sharper.

[jobycom]

18. Apollo West Airlines. We put the sunshine in your life.

[1]

19. republic...

when i was but a youth i flew republic several times.

i remember the inflight meal. a basket containing an apple, a wax wrapped piece of cheese, some bread and a little bottle of white wine. too cool.

and i sat in the back so we could smoke too.

good times...

[bumblebee1]

22. Damn, talk about a trip through yesteryear?

Eastern is the first airline I've flown on.

Pan Am was second. The flight was from Orlando, FL to Washington D.C.

I flew on TWA for my posting in Greece. The takeoff from JFK was quite interesting. It was the only time I was scared of flying.

[gemdem]

23. Don't know that it was a favorite, but...

Allegheny was the first commercial airline I used.

[drmeow]

24. Not a favoritte airline that is no more

but a favorite airline name that is no more - British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) or, as we affectionately referred it when I was living overseas, Better On A Camel :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Pacific

I used to love watching their Martin 404s and Fairchild F-27s take off and land at Monterey Airport when I was a kid.

[timtom]

26. Eastern

And, I will never fly again until all travel conditions are rolled back to 1966 standards.

[Frank Cannon]

27. Pacific Express

They were only around a couple of years, but they were cheap, friendly, and on time.

[gmoney]

28. People's Express?

Sort of the "Skybus" of the day... one of the first to seriously discount fares for "no frills", as I recall.

[gmoney]

29. Speak of the devil, SKYBUS calls it quits...

Just got this as I posted about People's Express...

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Dear Skybus Customer:

We regret to inform you that Skybus Airlines will cease all operations effective 12:00 a.m. Saturday, April 5. As a result, your Skybus flight has been cancelled.

Skybus will not be processing refunds directly. To arrange for a refund on your reservation, please contact your credit card company directly. If you purchased flight insurance for your reservation, please refer to your insurance confirmation from AIG for information on filing a claim.

Skybus struggled to overcome the combination of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment. These two issues proved to be insurmountable for a new carrier.

We deeply regret the impact this decision will have on our customers, as well as our employees and their families, vendors, suppliers, airport officials and others in the cities in which we have operated. Our financial condition is such that our Board of Directors felt it had no choice but to cease operations.

More information will be made available on the Skybus web site (www.skybus.com).

[blueknight]

30. florida express

used to fly out of cincinnati to various places in florida. always KILLED delta on fares

[KamaAina]

33. (duh) Aloha

actually I found their interisland service to be indistinguishable from Hawaiian's; both are basically Greyhound buses with wings. But without them, the Neighbor Islands become more distant from O'ahu than ever (watch for giant fare hikes next month after the heat dies down). Did I mention the agency where I work has three satellite offices out there?

[Zavulon]

34. Mohawk.

I flew that airline as a kid many moons ago, and got the old stereotypical cockpit tour from our stewardess along with a plastic model airplane.

And no, the pilot never asked me if I had been in a Turkish prison. :)

[Yurovsky]

35. Piedmont ... Almonds, not peanuts (mmmmmm... almonds)

back when flying was enjoyable. I can remember actually looking forward to it.

[DemoTex]

42. Thanks! I was a Piedmont pilot (then US Air bought us and ruined it!).

[Parche]

37. National And Braniff

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I have most of their system timetables in my collection!! :woohoo:
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