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Cause and result of demise : Ceased operations. Acquired piecemeal by American Airlines. Interesting fact : One marketing nbc studio tours nyc 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 Mansion, and Sutter Fort.
Air Florida 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 Southampton were league runners-up. The deal was canceled after one season due to Air Florida insolvency.
Interesting fact : On April 28, 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled Boeing 737-297 flight 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.
Braniff International Airways 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.
Kiwi International Airlines Operated : 1992 1999 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy. In 1997, a medical doctor Dr. Charles Edwards tried to revive the airline (with an investment of nearly $20,000,000 of his own money), but the idea was sadly abandoned.
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New York Air Operated : 1980-1987 Cause and result demise : Financial, acquired by Continental Interesting fact : New York Air was well known for its onboard bagged snacks, nbc studio tours nyc known as the The Flying Nosh, from the Yiddish word nash , to eat sweets, nibble on.
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Interesting fact : During the mid-1970s, there were two Pan Am flights nbc studio tours nyc operated around the world to set or break previous 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, 7 minutes, and 12 seconds.
Republic Airlines nbc studio tours nyc Operated : 1979 1986 Cause and result of demise : Bought nbc studio tours nyc by Northwest Orient, which re-branded itself after the merger as Northwest. Interesting fact : Apparently nbc studio tours nyc it is still possible to find a few old Republic logos around Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and Memphis International Airport if one looks hard enough.
Interesting fact : It was known as Trans-Texas Airways until 1969 and its acronym nbc studio tours nyc then allowed competitors to derisively call it Tree Top Airlines and Tinker Toy Airlines. It ran an ad campaign to counter it with a tag line: No More Tinker Toys. No More Treetops. We are now Texas International Airlines It apparently remains to this day the only carrier to bring jet service to the airports in Abilene, nbc studio tours nyc Hot Springs, Wichita Falls, San Angelo, Roswell, nbc studio tours nyc Hobbs and Texarkana .
Trans World Airlines Operated : 1925 2001 Cause and result of demise : Bankruptcy, acquired by American Airlines. Interesting fact : In the 1950s the TWA Moonliner, a futuristic exhibit that was placed by Howard Hughes, was the tallest structure at Disneyland and depicted atomic-powered travel to come in 1986.
ValuJet Operated : 1993 1997 Cause and result of demise : ValuJet Flight 592, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashed in the Florida Everglades on May 11, 1996 due to a fire caused by the activation of chemical oxygen generators that were stored in the cargo hold. The fire damaged the planes electrical system and eventually overcame the crew, resulting in the deaths of 110 people.
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Never flew North Central/Republic, which served Winnipeg from about 1974 to 1982. But I heard that cleanliness wasn t their strong point: the cabin looked like a stadium after a football game from what I heard.
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