Short Lived Airlines

[Foxtrot]

Re:

Pro Air, Eastwind, and unfortunately, Great Plains Airlines. :/

Foxtrot

[matt1168]

SouthEast , SEAL.com

Well., maybve they had been around a while! But I was sorry to see them leave!

I wouldn't exactly call Southeast ( www.flyseal.com ) a short-lived airline ... they were around from 1998 - November, 2004. Now if only I could've used those damn frequent flier points ...

[srbmod]

I wouldn't exactly call Southeast ( www.flyseal.com ) a short-lived airline ... they were around from 1998 - November, 2004. Now if only I could've used those damn frequent flier points ...

Even longer if you include predecessor Sun Jet International.

[pbateson]

Grand Air

[babypurin]

I wouldn't exactly call Southeast ( www.flyseal.com ) a short-lived airline ... they were around from 1998 - November, 2004. Now if only I could've used those damn frequent flier points ...

Did you have a lot?

[uy707]

Short terms flyers

Hey Colin, about EuroDirect you forgot the flagships (two ATPs) ...

Some others which lasted less than 1/2 years (unless stated) at best
Heliopolis, Egypt
Arabia, Egypt, 1982, one 737-200 lsd from Maersk, in full c/s
Universair, Spain, two 737-300s, 1988
NorJet, Spain, 737-400s, 1988/1990 (last)
Noble Air, Turkey, two 727-200s, 1985
CTA/Canafrica, Spain, DC.8-61 x 2, less than a year
Cretan, Greece, A320s, one of greek earliest private heavy metal operators
Appollo Air, Greece, A300Bs
Axon Air, Greece, 737-300s and 700s
Galaxy, Greece, 737-300 and 500
Jes Air, Bulgary, one 310 lsd from MU full c/s long haul sched SOF-JFK
Jaro, Romania, 707s and Bac 111s
Antares, Romania, Beech 1900Ds, taxi and sched domestic regionals
DAC Air, Romania, CRJ200s and Dash8-300s, sched regionals
Flying Finn, just a few months, MD83s
Altair, Italy, some Caravelle IIIs and then three 10B3s, 4 years
AERAL, Italy, all-cargo, 2 DC.8F54s
Aeropa, Italy's only civilian 707 operator ...
German Wings mk1, MD83s, intra european routes radiating from Riem
Wirtschaftflug, Germany's only Hercules operator.
London European, Bac 111-500s, scheduled BRU-LTN
British Independant, HS748, Lydd-Beauvais, scheduled
Countless other British airlines, mostly charter such as
IAE/InterAirEuropean, Amber Air, Ambassadair, AirwaysCymru, Scottish European, Scimitar, Pelican ...
SATT, first french private 707 operator
Air d'Evasions, french last civilian DC.8 operation, 10 months
Industrie Air Charter, one Caravelle 12 and one Nord 262
STAIR, a Caravelle 10B3
Jet Europe, tried to take over the route ORY-VAF with a Caravelle 10B3
EFIS, all cargo, Herk, based Châteauroux
Jet Fret, all cargo, one Herk and a DC.8-71(F)
Mondair, Morocco's first independant charter operator, two 737-300s
the low fares ...
Goodjet
Air Polonia
VolareWeb
AB Airlines
Debonair
Avant (Chile)
South Pacific (one US with 707s, one Chilean with 737-200s)
more to come
Alain

[ErwinS]

City Connect (started from the remains of TTA) Only a few months in the air.....

Swiss World Airlines
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They only flew with a 767 and this 757 was never deliverd.

rgds,
ErwinS

[uy707]

I promised more
- Fairlines, 2 x MD82s, LX-rego, operated between CDG-NCE & vv
- TransValair, first Swiss independant all cargo operator and country only CL44 operator.
- Phoenix Airways, first Swiss 707 and Bac 111 operator ... charter
- Homac Aviation, last Swiss 707 operator.
more to come
Alain

[pbateson]

German Wings already start as low costs with A319 and A320.

[uy707]

Prior to resurrection as today's low fare, original German Wings
was a full all business service airline which
-traded in 1988/1990
-was based Munich-Riem (now closed)
-operated 3/4 MD83s
-configurated as single C class ; 2 leather seats/row.
-inflight service was fantastic
But, and this took a toll ....
-frequencies were LOW
-one of the two flights of the day with an enroute stop at Cologne
-not constant when setting up the schedules from one season to another, too many changes.
list goes on

[matt1168]

Did you have a lot?

Well their program worked differently ... basically like a coffee-house free coffee system(I think it was like 4 RT's or 5 RT's and you got a free RT). I needed one more round trip flight to get a free round trip, and I was planning on taking one next month, but they went out and I booked on Southwest instead.

[uy707]

Keeping my promise
- Air Siam, Thailand's first 707, DC10 and 747 operator.
- Compass,
Australia's two time Phoenix, first with MD83s, then A300-600/310
- Saber Air, Singapore only charter and DC.8 operator
- Imperial Air, the Peruvian and only Americas' Tupolev 134 operator.
- Flitestar, South Africa, ATR72s and A320s, scheduled, 3 years 1991/94
- Rotterdam Airlines, scheduled with a single 737-200, 1985
- Holland Aerolines, first Dutch ATR42 operator, 1985
- Antinea Airways,
Algerian private airline, sched, 737-200, merged into Khalifa
- Inter Air,
tentative domestic subsisdiary set-up by Air Algérie with 737-200s, 727-200s and Fokker 27s, 1981-1985
- Montana Austria, long-haul charters, 707s, first to bug Austrian, 1978/82
Alain