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Nostalgia check....Anyone remember these airlines?
Anyone remember the following airlines?<BR><BR>1. Ozark <BR>2. Lake Central<BR>3. National<BR>4. Eastern<BR>5. New York Air<BR>6. Midway<BR>7. PSA<BR>8. Frontier<BR>9. Southern<BR>10. TTA<BR>11. Panam<BR><BR>Any others?<BR><BR><BR>US
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How could you forget the great Braniff Airline? Or on the east coast, Agony (a/k/a Allegheny Airlines)?<BR><BR>BTW, what is your point?<BR>
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Republic
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Yeah..I remember Braniff..I still have 2 free tickets ..to nowhere now!
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TWA, Laker.
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piedmont
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Remember Frontier?! Did they go anywhere, I still fly them!
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Peoples' Express. Went RT SFO to Brussels for 99 USD each way in December,1984 in a 747 with 550 passengers--not a trip for the claustrophobic. Served us sandwiches, chips and fruit in little baskets with red and white checkered napkins. They forgot to put the videos on board.
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Is National out of business? Isn't it the one which takes you to Las Vegas?<BR><BR>TWA... I have good memories about this one.
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North Central, based in the Twin Cities. I worked for them part-time during my final year of college. During that year, they merged with Southern, based in Atlanta, to form Republic which then, in turn, became part of Northwest.
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I've flown since 1952. Let me add Capital Airlines and Tag Airlines from the top of my head. I'll come up with many more not mentioned above.<BR>
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Pan Am
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I think the point of this was to make some of us feel old. I remember 6 of your list, plus Allegheny and Piedmont, also PBA (Provincetown-Boston Airlines, which also used to service Naples -Miami-Key West).<BR>And also the famous old Island Airlines which flew from Port Clinton, Ohio to the islands of Kelly and Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie. They used old Ford trimotor planes. Lest you think I'm even older than I am -- I last flew that airline in the early 70's.<BR>But my favorite is Spantex -- operated in Spain to Tangiers. It sounds like a plane powered with a rubber band, which I think it was. As it took off, they passed around a bowl of chewing gum so your ears wouldn't pop.
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Air Florida, Air South, Western Pacific
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Mohawk Airlines. Our motto "we'll fly planes nobody else would dare"
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Ozark spelled backwards is Krazo. I used to fly them a lot, and it was apt...
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Ah yes, and lets not forget the most famous of them all, Air America, that wonderful airline flown by spooks. I logged lots of miles with them in Asia in the mid-60s.
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I made reservations for my bosses on most of those airlines. My first flight was on Pan Am in the mid-50s.
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Mohawk, which merged into Allegheny which merged into US Air which then swallowed Piedmont. *BURP*<BR><BR>The current National Airlines is not the original "Fly me" one.
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Western Airline<BR>AirCal<BR>Morris Air
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