Operated : 1926-1991 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy Interesting fact : An Ex-Airline Execut

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I just received a very interesting email from a good friend who's a flight attendant on charters between Miami and Havana, Cuba. I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it's a fun trip through the airline sams club travel landscape of yore. Enjoy!
"What was the name of that air carrier that ...?    "Finally, sams club travel someone published a history of what airline merged, bought, sold, bankrupted, screwed, saved, bailed out,etc., in a short concise manner .
Cause and result of demise : Ceased operations. Acquired piecemeal by American Airlines. Interesting fact : One marketing sams club travel program used by Air California in the early to mid 1970s was to offer school field trips to Sacramento at $25 a head, where school children would be taken on a tour of the California State Capitol, Governor's sams club travel Mansion, and Sutter's Fort.
Operated : 1971 - 1984 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy, sped up by the crash of the January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington DC - assets obtained by Midway Airlines. Interesting fact : Air Florida sponsored Southampton Football Club, an English Football League side, during the 1983-84 season, in which Southamptonwere league runners-up. The deal was cancelled after one season due to Air Florida 's insolvency.
Operated : 1953 - October 28, 1979, started in 1939 as All-American sams club travel Airways. Cause and result demise : Rebranded as USAir, then US Airways ( source ) Interesting fact : It was one of the first airlines to create an affiliated branded network of regional airline carriers operating in unison with Allegheny, which was called the Allegheny Commuter System.
Operated sams club travel : 1946 - 2008 Cause and result of demise : Chapter 11 bankruptcy, transfer of operations to Aloha Air Cargo. Interesting fact : On April 28, 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled Boeing 737-297 flight sams club travel between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii . The aircraft suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui . The safe landing of the aircraft with such a major loss of integrity was unprecedented and remains unsurpassed.
Operated : 1928 - 1982 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy. Some flights scheduled to leave on May 12, 1982, at Dallas Fort Worth Airport were actually forced to disembark, being told that their airline no longer existed. Interesting fact : A Braniff plane and logo always appear after the closing credits in the South Park cartoon series. With the slogan : "Braniff - Believe It!"
Operated : 1941 - 1961. (Had its origins as Pennsylvania Central Airlines from 1936) Cause and result of demise : Merged into United Airlines Interesting fact : In 1948, the first airborne television was installed on a Capital airplane.
Operated : 1985 - 1986 Cause and result of demise : Ceased sams club travel service. Interesting fact : It operated six Fokker F27 aircraft, and the call sign was "Wild Onion" in reference to the Chippewa Indian derivation of the name "Chicago ." Image courtesy of David Oates.
Operated : 1926-1991 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy Interesting fact : An Ex-Airline Executive is set on purchasing the airline sams club travel back under the original Eastern name, with the main hub being in MIA. It hopes to begin operations sometime in 2011.
Operated : 1950 - 1986 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy. It re-emerged as the current Frontier Airlines in 1994 from executives of the old airline. Interesting fact : Frontier Airlines made history when they hired Emily Howell Warner on January sams club travel 29, 1973. She was the first female airline pilot hired by a U.S. commercial airline.
Operated : 1968 - 1980 Cause and result of demise : Purchased sams club travel by Republic Airlines in 1980. Interesting fact : Hughes Airwest's predecessor was Air West, which itself was a merger of Pacific Air Lines, Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines. TWA's former owner and aviator Howard Hughes bought and rebranded the fleet in 1970. The unique yellow paint earned them the nickname of "Flying Bananas", which they then turned into a company catchphrase: "Top Banana in the West".
Operated : 1992 - 1999 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy. In 1997, a medical doctor sams club travel Dr. Charles Edwards tried to revive the airline (with an investment of nearly $20,000,000 of his own money), but idea was sadly abandoned. sams club travel Interesting fact : Kiwi International Air Lines enjoyed a flawless safety record and near perfect dispatch reliability rate of 99.6% in its expansion.
Operated : 1976 - 1991. Began operations on November 1979. Cause and result of demise : Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Interesting fact : Some of the signature inflight service items were after-dinner chocolate wafer mints and hot hand towels sams club travel to the entire cabin, both of which had originally caught on with Midway's business clientele.
Operated : 1945 - 1972 Cause and result of demise : Labor issues and strikes sams club travel caused it to consider merger with Allegheny (see below), later USAir. Interesting fact : On February 11, 1958, Ruth Carol Taylor was hired by Mohawk Airlines, becoming the first African-American flight attendant in theUnited States . In 1961, it became the first airline to use a centralized computer based reservation service. In 1965, it became the first regional airline to utilize flight simulators.
Operated : 1981 - 1987 Cause and result of demise : Liquidated sams club travel by Southwest and renamed TranStar Airlines in 1985, and ceased operations in 1987. Interesting fact : Started up by founder and one time president of Southwest Airlines, Marion Lamar Muse, it prohibited smoking on the plane long before federal regulations enforced it.
Operated : 1934 - 1980 Cause and result of demise : Texas International Airlines offered to buy National sams club travel in 1978, but they opted instead to merge with Pam Am in 1980. Deregulation as well as high costs for the acquisition would eventually lead to Pam Am's demise. Interesting fact : In 1964, National became the first exclusively jet powered service in the United States . To supplement their branding and image (their logo was the Sun King, owing to the fact that they were based in Miami , Florida ), they opened a terminal at JFK called the Sundrome in 1970.
Operated : 1980-1987 sams club travel Cause and result demise : Financial, acquired by Continental Interesting fact : New York Air was well known for its onboard bagged snacks, known as the "The Flying Nosh", from the Yiddish word  nash , "to eat sweets, nibble on".
Operated : 1952 - 1979 Cause and result of demise : Merged with Southern Airways to become Republic Airlines, which became part of Northwest Airlines, which is now part of Delta. Interesting fact : It had its origins in 1939, when the Four Wheel Drive Company (FWD), sams club travel a major manufacturer of four-wheel transmissions and heavy-duty trucks based in Clintonville , Wisconsin , opened a flight department and traded a company truck for a WACO biplane for their company's use.
Operated : 1931 - 1972 Cause and result of demise : Merged with Delta on August 1, 1972. Interesting fact : Northeast was perhaps most famous for its dramatic "Yellowbird" campaign where its new delivery of Boeing 727-200 in 1967 were painted white and yellow. Its humble beginnings were as Boston-Maine Airways, which operated out of Boston , and was a joint venture between Boston and Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad.
Operated : September 1950 - October 1986 Cause and result of demise : Merged with TWA. Interesting fact : It operated a special toll-free number based in New Jersey between sams club travel the 60s and 80s that required asking the telephone operator for number WX-8300. Also, comedian George Carlin once acted as a spokesperson for the airline.
Operated : 1946 - 1968 Cause and result of demise : Purchased by Howard sams club travel Hughes to form Hughes Airwest, which was bought by Republic Airlines in 1980, which was bought by Northwest in 1986, which merged with Delta in 2009/2010. Interesting fact : Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashed near San Ramon, CA on May 7, 1964, after a distressed passenger shot both the pilot and co-pilot sams club travel before turning the gun on himself,  causing the plane to crash and killing all 44 aboard. This was likely sams club travel the first ever instance of a pilot being shot by a passenger. Pacific also launched a controversial ad campaign in 1967 designed to play upon passenger's fears of flying. Flight attendants apparently handed out "survival kits" featuring hot-pink lunch pails containing a small security blanket, a "lucky" rabbit's foot, the best-selling book "The Power of Positive Thinking", and a fortune cookie containing the slogan "It could be worse. The pilot could be whistling 'The High and the Mighty'."
Operated : 1949 - 1988 Cause and result demise : Financial, merged with USAirways, now reincarnated as commuter affiliate. Interesting fact : With the slogan "The World's Friendliest Airline," PSA was known for its sense of humor and its recognizable trademark was a smile painted on the nose of each plane and an accompanying ad campaign declaring "Catch Our Smile." After PSA was bought by USAir, ex-PSA mechanics would occasionally paint smiles on USAir planes as a joke.
Operated : 1927 - 1991 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy, remaining assets acquired sams club travel by Delta Air Lines. Interesting fact : During the mid-1970s, there were two Pan Am flights operated around the world to set or break previous sams club travel around-the-world flying records. Liberty Bell Express broke the commercial plane around-the-world record with 46 hours, 50 seconds, making only two stopovers during the journey, one in New Delhi and the other in Tokyo-Haneda. The other was over the North Pole using the Clipper New Horizons, which was actually the same plane as the Liberty Bell Express, and took 54 hours, sams club travel 7 minutes, and 12 seconds.
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