23 Forgotten Airlines That No Longer Fly

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Do you have any interesting stories from your time on board any of these defunct airlines?

[@sandranynj7118]

People Express was my first flight ever, to visit my Mother from New Jersey to Syracuse NY! It started my airline travel! I felt so rich!

[@theon9575]

@@ThoseWonderYears I used to fly constantly because of the nature of my work, but one outstanding memory was Continental Airlines in particular their DC10 aircraft. In the early '80s I flew on these between Melbourne, Australia, to Denver,Co., with a stop in Aukland, NZ. One of Continental's first forays across the Pacific. Very memorable: at that time the DC10 was seen as unsafe after crashes due to rear door problems; Continental's cabin service & meals were outstanding compared to others; I'm not religious but I LOVED the Prayer Cards that passengers received for Grace of Thanks before the meal (I still have one as a souvenir!) .... most of all, the Continental DC10s had a small bar where passengers could walk for liquor or beer. The first BAR in the sky, I think, 40 years ago. I 🧡d Continental!

[@bumbum1919q]

Not on any of these airlines, but 15 years ago traveling on AA to Atlanta,GA we were landing and the rear wheels just touched the ground then all of a sudden the pilot went full power and did a very steep climb and bank to the left. People were screaming baggage fell out of the overhead bins and I thought we were all going to die. After we got settled down and were doing a hold pattern the pilot said he was sorry about the aborted landing but a commuter jet was crossing our landing runway and had stopped. We circled for about 20 minutes while the runway was cleared and then we came in and had a safe landing.

[@aubsta1]

No one has forgottted Pan Am or TWA

[@Nursecub86]

Huh?

[@leemartin1417]

I flew some of the no longer airlines in the 70s and 80s as a kid. My fondest moments are with Braniff. The color schemes were a trip. Everything about the airline was amazingng. The interior being bright and colorful. It was ahead of its time. I flew eastern, twa and continental. These were gems with special services. It was enjoyable then truly missed today. Unforgettable!

[@ThoseWonderYears]

thanks for sharing

[@PPaulPimpin]

Pan AM was the first Airline I flew on. When they say all seats were first class I remember it well. We flew from New York to Italy nonstop they served breakfast lunch and dinner..Real food and it was really good. When we landed everyone clapped..awe the 1980's were great. I first heard Stevie Nick's playing on their speakers..Man those were the days 😢😢😢

[@barrycohen1731]

Excellent......Air Force and Airline veteran

[@jjock3239]

I remember, while I was in the air force, landing a T-38 at Carswell AFB (Fort Worth) in 1972 , and seeing the Braniff ramp, loaded with a rainbow of 747s, 727s, and other aircraft. It was a real experience for me, as I had never seen a 747 before, and it was like a visual overload.

[@flyerbob124]

I worked for Flying Tigers from the early 1970s till 1985. Still the best job I ever had. We still have an alumni group with about 400 members that meet twice a year for lunch. One of the last places to work where you could start as a part time ramp serviceman and end up with a staff job in the headquarters building without a college degree. Sorry to see them destroyed by FedEx who only wanted their Asia routes and rights and not the “can do” spirit of the company.

[@franz.isler799]

16:15 The first Frontier Airlines operated from 1950-86 based at now closed Stapleton Airport (DEN)The newer Frontier Airlines founded in 1996 is now a major ultra low cost carrier (now based in Denver International a/p) operating an all- Airbus fleet of 150 planes.The older Frontier has a much storied variety of jets and propeller driven aircraft. My old time fave Frontier a/c was the Convair 340 (pressurised cabin) and was an outstanding airliner. United flew 340s for 16 years without a fatality. KLM flew the type with outstanding reliability in operations, and as a child, I once flew on KLM's 340 with relative comfort and fond memories.

[@Conn653]

Your voice reader can't give aircraft model numbers correctly. It the Seven Forty Seven, not Seven Hundred and Forty Seven. I've spent about 55 years in aviation, and I know what I'm talking about. I worked for Allegheny Commuter Airlines, Rio Airways and retired from American Airlines. Get your act together or get off KZbin!

[@davidbakerscuba]

It’s because they are using artificial intelligence narration. They can’t discern the way of speaking from reading the numbers.

[@HorstGrimme]

It's conversation. It's about the meaning. No problem here.

[@globoliver9697]

Allegheny! This one was in my first book about civil avation as a boy, and while I was beginning to learn English at that time the name always startled me, not sounding really English... 😂

[@rocoop2k]

You know, absolutely NO ONE, except you, refers to the 747's as "seven hundred and forty sevens" or 727's as "seven hundred and twenty sevens".

[@iankravitz5723]

Well, what would you expect from a "robot voice"?

[@dgale1023]

@@iankravitz5723 no doubt especially if that voice thinks Frontier no longer flies

[@JinRosado]

@@dgale1023 bro there’s 2 frontiers the original has no relation to the current frontier

[@franz.isler799]

@@dgale1023 The first Frontier Airlines operated from 1950-86 based at now closed Stapleton Airport (DEN) The newer Frontier Airlines founded in 1996 is now a major ultra low cost carrier (now based in Denver International a/p) operating an all- Airnus fleet of 150 planes. The older fFontier has a much storied variety of jets and propeller driven aircraft. My old time fave Frontier a/c was the Convair 340 (pressurised cabin) and was an outstanding airliner! United flew 340s for 16 years without a fatality. KLM flew the type with outstanding reliability in operations, and as a child, I once flew on KLM's 340 with relative comfort and fond memories.

[@franz.isler799]

@@dgale1023 The first Frontier Airlines operated from 1950-86 based at now closed Stapleton Airport (DEN)The newer Frontier Airlines founded in 1996 is now a major ultra low cost carrier (now based in Denver International a/p) operating an all- Airnus fleet of 150 planes.The older Frontier has a much storied variety of jets and propeller driven aircraft. My old time fave Frontier a/c was the Convair 340 (pressurised cabin) and was an outstanding airliner! United flew 340s for 16 years without a fatality. KLM flew the type with outstanding reliability in operations, and as a child, I once flew on KLM's 340 with relative comfort and fond memories.

[@bravevoice2771]

Something I will never forget was a flight in 1991. The Captain came on the intercom and announced, "This is your Captain speaking. We know that you have a great choice of bankrupt airlines to fly with, and we appreciate you choosing Eastern". Everyone laughed for a long time.

[@nickdoughty518]

Pan Am still has worldwide brand recognition.

[@timeoflittlebells]

For the longest time I only knew them for their railways, I didn't learn they were also an airline until years later. My dad worked for PanAm Railways for quite a few years.

[@1245rs3]

PanAm also was the reason we had the 747!

[@perha45]

5:35 Why show a picture of LAX when it talks about New York and Florida? Oh, I know, they don't know what they are talking about. It is apparent throughout this video.

[@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect]

They showed footage of London's Big Ben and red double decker buses while talking about Easterns hourly shuttle service between New York, Boston and DC. A lot of video producers on KZbin are low quality.

[@Hclol_9]

I Never Forgot TWA and Pan Am

[@jeffskene42]

this one says frontier is no more but its still flying

[@davidharris2519]

but the one today is no relation to the original

[@jeffskene42]

@@davidharris2519 agh ok so two differant Frontiers ..interesting thanks..

[@nickberis1249]

Enjoyed watching this remember all those Airlines sad

[@KCFlyer2]

That is the wrong National Airlines.

[@gregsells8549]

The current National Airlines is a cargo carrier.

[@KCFlyer2]

@@gregsells8549 True...and the narration is correct describing the "original" passenger airline but they kept showing the cargo carrier today.

[@Flyby-1000]

@@gregsells8549 And passenger charter, but yeah, mostly freight...

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

Timestamps: 4:15 - 5:20 .

[@ksbear2]

@@KCFlyer2 But they did show the correct National Airlines plane when talking about one of the other airlines.

[@rahuliyer7456]

I have flown many of these airlines...even when Northwest was referred to as Northwest Orient Airlines. I flew Northwest to Bangkok.... through their hub at Narita. I then went onward to Ho Chi Minh City from Bangkok.

[@lucky4724]

Pan Am was the taxi that took me all over the world during my military years!! "73-78"🇺🇲✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️

[@rayshowsay1749]

Now, rather than Pan Am Airways, the name is Pan Am RAILways(in New England).

[@regaladoregalado9442]

It flew to Cuba from the USA/Key West, I flew to Miami in PanAm in April 5, 1962. it was a dream leaving communist Cuba to freedom and it was PanAm who was flying two flights daily bringing Cubans to USA. It was a dream come true and I also Flew from Barranquilla Colombia on the last flight for this itinerary. I would like to see Cuba free and PanAm flying again.

[@Rocket-hb6jh]

Not much on the research bit, eh? The National Airlines 747s you showed were nothing to do with NA, they were from a current cargo operator with no connection to the old National at all! Varney Speed Lines was the precursor of United not Continental. The first Northeast pic is a Trident, operating for the then UK Northeast Airlines. BTW, no one ever calls it a seven-hundred and forty-seven. Also, the Western CRJ nothing to do with WA, it doesn’t even have a US registration! DC-3s not “three s”. There were two Frontier Airlines and you completely mixed them up. Aer Lingus when you’re talking about Air Florida FFS?

[@shivakumarap4325]

Still PANAM and TWA are the Best in the world. No one can easily forget this two Airlines.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

I remember about half of these airlines.. flew on several of them, back in the day.

[@WonkyWomanLife]

I remember Allegany,Peidmont and Eastern

[@ericericson3535]

That's when flying was fun and service was the benchmark.

[@rodterrell304]

Yes, it was a romantic experience

[@richardbrown6565]

And expensive.

[@HorstGrimme]

I used to fly from Tampa to San Jose every other month with National for $365 R/T. That was '78-82. Expensive? No.

[@k.wilkie3814]

@@HorstGrimme That is about $1760 in today's dollars, so yeah it's definitely more than today's prices.

[@JohnCarney-b9o]

Enjoyed kinda a documentary on plane companies that no longer exist and forgot about and really liked the music you chose for the video thank you flew eastern and us kids received our free wings we wore❤❤

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thank you :)

[@richardschindler8822]

I flew on nearly every one of those airlines back in the day. Back then they had real airlines, made lots of noise and smoke. I was a pilot on a corporate BAC 1-11 and went for training Allegheny in PIT. Both of which are retired and long gone.

[@peternicolaides6256]

I was a F/A with Eastern from 1976 to 1989 based in SJU & MIA.

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Wow that’s amazing

[@roberthenry9319]

Use of a computer generated voice is so obvious. "Boeing seven hundred and seven". This could have been a great video, because it is a very interesting topic. But lack of serious research and an absolutely silly computer voiced script with no real information makes the video a bust. Showing re-fueling of a B-52 relegates the video to trash.

[@paulj6756]

@@roberthenry9319 I agree. This is so poorly produced.

[@paulj6756]

It can't even get plurals right.

[@lvsluggo007]

@@paulj6756 And on its "National Airlines" segment, ALL but ONE of the aircraft it showed were of the current cargo "reincarnation" of National Airlines, which to my understanding has NO connection to the original. That crash a few years ago of a 747 in Afganistan caught on video as it crashed was a National Airlines 747.

[@eudaenomic]

OMG: 9 Jan 1977. I take a flight on Braniff 747 to Dallas the best flight with comfortable wide seats and excellent Stewardesses and upon arrival I have a connection with Frontier. We had to go outside and walk in the snow. I got in the plane, a turboprop minus the expected chickens and goats. We landed in Missouri, in the snow slipping and sliding sideways. The plane made almost a complete 270° turn in the ice and snow. I was never so happy to get off a plane.

[@MaxZomboni]

14:25 Hughes Airwest will always be my favorite. The night before you wanted to fly you could go to the airport ticket counter and buy any unsold seats for $20 cash. I don't think any of their flight attendants were over age 25. The average age was probably 20, and they were always entertaining. A typical PA announcement would be something like "On behalf of the Captain, the crew and our late Uncle Howard, we would like to thank you for flying Hughes Airwest. We hope to see you again real soon".

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thanks for sharing

[@johnloudaros800]

They showed a nice shot of San Jose Airport during the PSA segment, when it was only 1 small little terminal, and you would walk out to the plane

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you for sharing some great memories. I had one of my uncles work for US Airways and I had an 2 aunts who worked for TWA. My Father worked for still current legacy airline United as well as I have worked for United.😊

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thanks for sharing :)

[@LMays-cu2hp]

@@ThoseWonderYears You are welcome.

[@Xedgehog1]

Funny, but Frontier is still flying...

[@bobbybob3865]

I always want to just go from here to there. Doesn't having gourmet meals, stylist plane interiors, and luxury service add to the cost of plane flights?

[@georgesenda1952]

I am from Pittsburgh and the running joke about Allegheny is that they had mountain to mountain service due to a series of crashes that resulted from their planes flying into mountains on landing approaches. NO one we knew in Pittsburgh would fly them because common opinion was their planes were death traps.

[@cds1848]

Upon transformation in the late-70s...US Air continued on that tradition. #USScare

[@WilliamColvin-br6io]

If you are referring to the flight 427 crash in Hopewell... that crash was determined to be from the plane going thru the wake of the plane in front of it. Windshear was not understood as well at that time, and caused a number of airline incidents. Technology has vastly improved since then... that's why it doesn't make the news anymore... RIP#427

[@rahuliyer7456]

Every time we made the trip from Chicago to India growing up, the question my parents faced was Pan Am or Air India. Both ran JFK to Mumbai. Every time Air India ended up being the choice.

[@carlosojeda1956]

I remember my first airplane flight from N.Y.C. to San Juan on a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation.

[@michaelhall9138]

Famous ATC comms from PanAm….. “Was that for the Clipper?”

[@edrickoerner2758]

At "National" I KNEW you didn't know what you're talking about.

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

I agree. I'm tired of people posting videos ,when they haven't done their research. The National with the blue painted planes , was a cargo carrier.😮 There was another National Airlines based in Las Vegas that flew 757s and had a multi-colored 'N' on the tail.

[@LeeMoore-tu4gr]

I miss Midwest Express every time I fly 🙁. As a resident of Wisconsin it was simply the best!

[@stargazeronesixseven]

😮🙏 Air travellers , Airport Workers & Airlines Crew were so much more respectful , better trained & proud to behaved properly & work with pride & joy! Happy to those who've the good fortune to experienced those Golden Era of Air Travel from the 1950s to the 1990s before their Happy Unions face their eventual Dissolutions in due Time & Space due to human karma ... Thank You So Much for bringing back some of those nostalgic era for the next generations to sample & to learn ... 🙏🌷🌿🍎🍊🌏✌💜🕊

[@RTD3]

VERY well done. BRAVO!!

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thanks for watching

[@alandaters8547]

He forgot the "Trump Shuttle", but so did everyone else....

[@stevelavergne2852]

I flew on People Express back in the day. They weren't bad except they had a horrible on-time record because they needed full planes to be profitable and would wait to see if anyone off arriving flights would want to fly on that leg. It also didn't help that the hub was at Newark, so all flights had one end of the leg there. Houston-to-Jacksonville? You went through Newark.

[@gamitro]

Flew Pan Am and Eastern, Continental as a child and as a young adult also TWA to Europe, my parents and older siblings flew Pan Am clipper airboats to and from Cuba to Puerto Rico in the 1940's long before I was born and my older brothers talked about how exciting it was to take off and land in the water. Recently I printed passenger manifests with their names from those trips. Being much younger I missed out on those exciting trips. Eastern was a favorite for my dad and was the o

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thanks for sharing

[@ScottPiepenburg]

Thank you for including MidEx. I lived in MKE during their heydey and flew them regularly. In hindsight one of my saddest moments was on a flight from BDL to DFW with a change at MKE they were both lunch flights and I'm thinking "I hope I don't get the same meal twice." One time they even made some extra cookies for me to give my GF as she met me at the plane (pre 9/11) She couldn't believe they were still warm.

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Hope you had enjoyed

[@kd5you1]

Texas International merged with Continental in 1982, and Texas International's history goes back to 1940 as Aviation Enterprises.

[@daletesson4630]

Prior to Texas Intl, it was Trans Texas Airlines aka Tree Topper Airlines.

[@JLKB-1947]

Ozark ! Took us from Lackland Air Force Base to Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois , 1976. 🇺🇸

[@JamesHenry-o8m]

I do remember PSA,God I loved that airline, and who could forget Western Airlines,? "The o-o-only way to fly 😊😊😊😊😊

[@georgesenda1952]

I am surprised you did not pick Capital Airlines where they treated passengers and children like royalty and their fares were really cheap back in the 1950s. My Mother and I used to fly from Washington DC to New York and back and also from Pittsburgh to DC and to New York as well and one way fares were as low as $24. Their posters would show off features of the cities they flew to, they did big business flying out of Pittsburgh, and the food & service was great as well. I was very sad when they were bought out by United and it was just not the same. Their former employees still hold an annual reunion. My other favorite airline to fly was PSA. Great service, everyone was cheerful and happy, incredibly beautiful stewardesses, and it was so cheap to fly from SFO to LA that I used to fly down in the late afternoon, meet friends who would take me to dinner, and fly back to be home with the Airporter bus to the SF Hilton all for only $24 not counting tax. I miss their cute smiling airplanes too.

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thanks for sharing

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

We took Trans Caribbean Airlines back 1963? From New York 🇺🇸to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. Frontier Airlines is in business. Great video.

[@ThoseWonderYears]

thank you :)

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

I lived in Colorado from 1972-1989. The ORIGINAL Frontier merged with PeoplExpress and the conglomeration of Continental, Eastern, Texas International and New York Air. The Frontier that is flying today, (2024), uses the name but has no connection to the original. It certainly doesn't have the sophistication of the airline that had burgundy, red and orange MD-80's and 737s. They were a class act.; not like that cattle car with wings that is operating today 😮😞

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

PSA = Poor Sailors Airline. And back in the day, the cabin crew were all young women who tended to be on the attractive side. Flying Tigers was founded by members of the American Volunteer Group - volunteer pilots in P-40 Warhawks who defended China from the Japanese at the start of WW2.

[@mdcccc.ichaellopez5033]

Frontier airlines is still here today

[@davidharris2519]

but it is no relation to the original

[@sandranynj7118]

People Express was my first flight ever, to visit my Mother from New Jersey to Syracuse NY! It started my airline travel! ❤✈

[@rodterrell304]

Wow a stroll down memory lane! "The only way to Fly" These Airlines was so cool and I remember seeing them at LAX back in the 1970's

[@irishledden4924]

It sounds like Delta is responsible for most of today's mess.

[@stuartlee6622]

Mohawk!!!!!

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

The only one that has not been mentioned is Air California. That airline covered all of the state of California and had two stops outside of California and they were in Nevada. I flew on them when I was a kid. I was a tweener, you know I was between a child and a teenager. But it was nice.

[@The_Dudester]

The first airline I flew on was TWA. I was 10 and my brother was 8. The F/A showered us with toys, food and drink (not to mention attention). The return flight-the F/A was highly annoyed with us. I had thought that the first flight was the way airlines worked, I had a lot to learn.

[@JBLAXVIDEOS]

This guy really loves the word “Plucky”😂😂

[@DonLefFL]

What the heck is a clip of a B-52 air refueling doing in this Vlog? That plus I flew Frontier last week!

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

Not only did they get the wrong Frontier, they got the wrong National Airlines too. I lived in Colorado from 1972-1989. There was another Frontier Airlines that eventually merged with Continental. The original Frontier had orange, red and burgundy painted 737s and MD-80's. Their in-flight service had won awards and were a favorite of people in the Rocky Mountain region. This new version of Frontier may have the name but the service and schedules are horrid !!!😮 This video had many inaccuracies.

[@lvsluggo007]

Along with the stupid computer voice (Seven hundred and fourty-seven?) and a lot of wrong pictures and just plain wrong info, this video was a waste of my time.

[@gamitro]

As a child and young adult I remember flying Eastern Airlines and Pan American mostly. My parents and older siblings flew on Pan Am air boats between Puerto Rico and Cuba in the 1940s long before I was born. My dad's favorite airlines were Pan Am and Eastern between Nashville, Miami, San Juan New York City. I also flew to Europe on TWA and to México on Continental.

[@bcshelby4926]

...the National 747s pictured are a cargo line, which has nothing to do with the older carrier that merged with Pan American. National did operate 747s on their Miami - Paris and Miami - London but in their classic orange and yellow livery. _______________ That first picture in eh Northeast segment of the BAC One Eleven is actually the UK's Northeast. _______________ Western' had other liveries besides the big red "W" My favourite was the one just prior to that which s briefly seen in another part of the video. _______________ The more fancy Frontier livery shown in the Frontier segment belongs to a newer low fare no frills carrier which is one of the worst to fly on today _______________ In the Air Florida segment, that is not Ed Acker who was with Braniff before he founded Air FLorida as he wore fairly thick glasse and his facial lines are different. The person shown looks more like a one Edward Acker who is currently a partner at a British Insurance broker BTW the other fellow in that clip bears a striking resemblance to the infamous Jeffry Epstein. Oh and in one clip near the beginning that is an Aer Lingus B-737.. _______________ Seems better research is is in order. _______________ Finally: Midwest Express ( later just "Midwest") was my favourite as it was like flying back in the "pre deregulation" days (save for the high fares). Midwest was headquartered in my old hometown of Milwaukee WI which was often said to be "under the shadow" of O'Hare (well save North Central and Northwest which in the 1960s and 70s considered the city an important destination). For a number of years, Midwest turned the tables making MKE an important hub instead of just a spoke on other airlines route networks. Of course their main claim to fame as mentioned, was the extra comfort and high quality cabin service (which most other airlines were moving away from at the time) at reasonable fares. Sadly 9-11 and another increase in fuel prices afterwards resulted in financial difficulties, and even though they faced a potential buyout from Air Tran (that was rejected) they refused to compromise on their their service quality. Eventually they were acquired by Republic Air Holdings which a few years later later merged them into the current Frontier airlines, a very ignoble end to a once innovative amnd well loved airline . For a number of years they were rated as one the top carriers in The States for passenger satisfaction and received multiple awards from major travel publications such as like Conde Nast. They are sorely missed.

[@snakebitepellehue]

Do a worldwide edition, please, not just U.S. airlines!

[@davidharris2519]

no dont this one is a joke many many errors

[@WilliamColvin-br6io]

You forgot a few airlines... All American Airlines (hauled mail) became Allegheny Airlines to haul passengers. Allegheny then merged over the years with Lake Central Airlines, Mohawk Airlines, America West, Pacific Southwest Airlines, and Piedmont Airlines. Along the way Allegheny Airlines, changed names to USAIR, and then US Airways... before merging again with either United or American... i don't remember which one took them out of existence.

[@JLKB-1947]

I was living in the then British HongKong during the 60's as an American foreign resident. After graduated from schools , got hired by PanAm to work at the then HK Kai-Tak Airport. Two days later and 8 days before heading to New York City for the two weeks of training, I got drafted for the U S military service . ( draft board 47 ). Back here 🇺🇸 anyway and not being taken for a couple of reasons including 5 pounds underweight ( skinny). As time goes by I volunteered and qualified and served . Never been in any frontline . 😎☕️🍰🇮🇹🇺🇸

[@francisbtube]

Someone should relaunch Pan Am and make it the best American airline again. With a retro styling and handsome attendants, both ladies and men. All inclusive prices and great meals.

[@stphinkle]

Frontier is interesting. The original Frontier Airlines closed in 1986. But some of the images you used were from the CURRENT frontier Airlines which is NOT a defunct airline. It still exists today. In fact, it was owned by the newer (commuter) Republic Airways for a while until being bought by Indigo Partners. All the images with Animals are from the Current Frontier, the same with the Airbus A319/A320 planes.

[@HorstGrimme]

What about Capital Airlines? I had a flight scheduled from Idlewild to Midway in 1961, the day JFK was inaugurated. Ozark: I still have a wine list from Ozark when I flew from Memphis and Nashville to Tampa.

[@ThoseWonderYears]

What wonderful memories! Capital Airlines and Ozark hold a special place in aviation history, and it's amazing that you still have that wine list as a keepsake. Thank you for sharing these nostalgic moments!

[@HorstGrimme]

What about Trans Texas? While visiting San Antonio in 1980 I saw planes with the TT logo on the tarmac

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

My earliest memory of flying, was on National Airlines ( the original, with the Sun King logo) and I flew Braniff International several times. I miss Braniff and have never forgiven Robert Crandall, the then CEO of American Airlines for engaging in dirty tactics that forced Braniff to cease operations. To this day, in 2024, I have never flown American and never will because of it. In 1976, when I was 11 years old, I had major surgery and my aunt, who was a nurse, flew from Washington D.C., to Colorado Springs to help with my recovery. I had dreams at that time of becoming an Airline Stewardess when I grew up. When Aunt Polly returned to Washington, she told the pilots and stewardesses about me and my medical crisis. Several weeks later, I received a get well card in the mail from the flight crew. That really touched my heart and I hated that a ruthless man like Crandall had no regard for their jobs or livelihoods. That is why I have personally boycotted American. Captain Don Behrman and the crew of that Braniff flight will always hold a special place in my heart... I have never forgotten them.😢💕😞

[@ThoseWonderYears]

I really appreciate you sharing your story! It’s touching to hear how the kindness of those flight crews made such a difference during a challenging time in your life.

[@whatyoutalkinabout]

Getting a thesaurus to look up synonyms for “plucky”

[@rahuliyer7456]

Also I remember flying the turboprops of Henson Airlines and also Britt Airways. One was a feeder into various along the East Coast. The other a feeder into O'Hare.

[@maxsdad538]

I remember back in the 60's when LAX would be fogged in and closed, Western Airlines would divert to tiny (at the time) Van Nuys Airport. The MASSIVE 707's would unload immediately behind my house, and my mom and I would watch the busloads of passengers being shuttled back to LAX.

[@danielpearson4972]

Left out Southern and Braniff. A very good friend in 70s started her FA career on Braniff. I worked as ramp agent after Vietnam for Southern before going to A&P tech training.

[@michaelcondon2746]

He covered Braniff, but only touched on Southern as being a merger partner with North Central to create Republic. Speaking of Republic, at 13:56, the Republic Airways shot has nothing to do with the original Republic. Maybe I'm just being too "plucky".

[@spikedraconian2164]

And half the footage are re-enactments from “air disasters”…

[@alvexok5523]

Growing up I had family in both Philadelphia and in the UK. I grew up in KC and TWA and Eastern were the 2 airlines we flew most frequently. We usually flew on Eastern from KC to Philly, usually direct. And we flew TWA to London, stopping in either St. Louis or Chicago on route, since KC had no direct flights to London. And we once flew Braniff to Salt Lake City

[@michaelosgood9876]

That Braniff Douglas DC8 62-- before Calder got his hands on it-- was originally the lime green colored one. IMO the finest looking jet Ever-- bar none!

[@wilfredmorin722]

Robot reader. Could't afford a human reader, huh.

[@martiniangoldberg]

@@wilfredmorin722 Seven hundred forty-seven. 😂

[@davidharris2519]

Japan airlines was the largest operator of the 747

[@Lex5576]

I guess Continental does live on in the form of United's new livery with the globe tail logo. When it comes to quality of service for your money, Piedmont was the master of all of these airlines. They had friendly and professional staff, fewer delays, fewer lost luggage claims, and just an all around great airline until USAir screwed it up.

[@nitehawk86]

Who the hell has forgotten about TWA and PanAm?

[@theon9575]

FORGOTTEN? Pan American Airways? You're kidding! NO WAY! Those of us who flew Pan American from '70s onwards haven't forgotten. PanAm was THE airline, biggest in the world. It was THE international icon instantly recognized the world over. The Pan American Clipper, the deafening noise of the Boeing 707s, the PanAm girls ‼️❤️. It was/is quite unforgettable. 😂

[@marcvanderwee]

Sadly the 'Clipper' was not flying that long, that plane only flew for 8 years. As it was involved in the Tenerife crash on March 27th, 1977.

[@theon9575]

@@marcvanderwee ? But that Tenerife smash, the worst airplane disaster in aviation history, involved 2 Boeing 747 aircraft, and detailed enquiry subsequently gave most of the blame to the KLM pilot. No Clipper involved. Unless I missed another crash with a Clipper 🧐 ... mmm.

[@marcvanderwee]

@@theon9575 Thank you for your answer! I was confused about the word 'Clipper' as it is also a type of aircraft. You are totally right that the Tenerife disaster was mostly the fault of the Dutch captain. But the PanAm Jumbo involved in that crash was named 'Clipper'. The KLM Jumbo was named 'Rijn'.

[@theon9575]

@@marcvanderwee And thank you for yours! I'm so old that I can clearly remember that crash on the day and horrifying news flashes on TV etc. ... and that it involved 2 "Jumbo jets" which were still then a novelty. Worse still, one was KLM and I'm Dutch. As the enquiries unravelled the causes, it basically boiled down to the Dutch captain making impatient decision because otherwise he would be late home from work. Embarrassingly, typically Dutch 😫. So I googled the photos and YES , you're quite right, the Pan Am 747 had 'Clipper' painted on its fuselage? .... you must be right that it was that particular aircraft's name.

[@michaelcondon2746]

"Clipper Victor" was the Pan Am 'seven hundred and forty seven' involved in the Tenerife collision

[@WillCrabbe]

Braniff had orange 747 that flew into Hawaii.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

The first movies on a flight were not on a “tiny little screen” by any means. Starting in 1921 they had large size screens that could be pulled down. First, with 16mm projectors and then RGB projectors like the first home video projection televisions. Some of the huge flying boats even had a designated movie theatre onboard.

[@FD347]

Honorable mention to Laker Airways. Freddie Laker had his name on every plane.

[@johndunkelburg9495]

Most of the animation snippets come from the series “Air Crash Investigation”.

[@SupermarketSweep777]

Awww I miss America West.

[@nickk6518]

I once flew a couple of times with Continental from London to New Zealand and both trips were quite an adventure, so to speak. First time I had an overnight wait for my connecting flight to Auckland and had not booked accommodation. I asked if there was an earlier flight, which resulted in me being put on a PSA flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, plus food vouchers and a hotel room for the night. Second time there was an issue with my connecting flight from Newark (a water leak, as I recall). We had to deplane and the aircraft was taken out of service. Continental were going to divert us to Los Angeles where we would have been transferred to a Qantas flight to Sydney before back-tracking to Auckland, but the Qantas flight was closed so, again, we were all provided with a hotel room for the night before being flown to Honolulu, then to Auckland (with the added excitement of severe turbulence in the south Pacific). Despite being a day late arriving, miraculously, our luggage arrived with us. On one of the return trips there was another Continental f**kup, which resulted in me being put on an almost empty TWA flight from LA to London Gatwick, rather than to Heathrow. On subsequent trips, I flew Qantas from London to Sydney and Royal Brunei from London to Brisbane. ON the Qantas trip I was invited on to the 747 flight deck by the captain. Not many people can say they have had that privilege, I bet!!

[@ThoseWonderYears]

Thanks for sharing

[@michaelosgood9876]

Air NZ DC 8 got a visit to cockpit of ZK NZD. In August 1980 as a 12 year old. Great times.

[@davidharris2519]

if you were on a plane and there was a movie being shown you had more than a bag of peanuts you had meals

[@MellowAviation]

Frontier was like: “I always come back” 😈😈

[@Flyby-1000]

National (depicted in the video) is still in operation... Passenger Charter and Freight... They have a heavy presence in MCO (Orlando)... Saw a new Eastern bird the other day on the west ramp at MCO... The "new" FRONTIER Airlines has now, unbelievably, outlived the original Frontier Airlines by about a decade now. We just celebrated our 30th birthday on July 5th of this year... (Yes, I said we... F9 Mx, Dec '00 - Aug '09 DEN, then Aug '21- present MCO) The old Frontier was bought out by Continental Airlines in the mid '80's. Board members from the old Frontier got together to bring back Frontier and Founded the "New" Frontier on Jul '94 and started flying a year later. Republic Airway is not and never was an "airline" in the sense of the word. They are still around. They are an aircraft & crew leasing company that flew routes for the airlines for a set price per route. They bought FRONTIER Airlines and Midwest Express in "09 (I believe) after claiming bankruptcy due to the "07 recession. Boy oh boy, they DID NOT know how to run an actual "Airline" and were loosing millions every quarter. They put Frontier up for sale in '12 or "13. Indigo Partners sold their share of Spirit stocks and bought FRONTIER. They sat back and said how can we take the SPIIT business model and streamline it even more? Ta Da... Welcome to the current FRONTIER AIRLINES!!! America West, call sign "Cactus" didn't really "disappear".... That lil regional bought bankrupt US Air and since the US Air name was more prominent in the domestic airline world, they retired the America West name, but kept the call sign "Cactus" until they moved forward again and bought / majority merged with American Airlines...and retired the US Air name because American Airlines was more prominent in the world wide airline world, and also dropped the "Cactus" call sign to keep "American"..... Also, yes, they had a large presence in LAS, but PHX was their home base.... Midwest Express was pretty neat.... Almost worked for them in Nov '00, but I chose Frontier instead, since I was already in DEN and really didn't want to live in MKE

[@davidharris2519]

no relation to the originals

[@alvexok5523]

Weren't the various colors of Braniff aircrafts based on which region of the US they flew to? Such as the red planes flew to the South such as Texas, Memphis, Atlanta, and Florida. The orange planes flew to the East coast such as New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C, and Boston. The dark blue flew to the north and Great Lakes such as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. The light blue (which I sorta remember me and family flew on from KC to Salt Lake City in 1979) flew out west to SLC, Vegas, Phoenix, LA, and San Francisco. And the green planes flew to the Northwest such as Seattle, Portland, and Boise. I'm not sure if I remember accurately which colors flew where, except the light blue planes flying west, but I remember being told that each color flew to a particular region from Kansas City, which was Braniff's hub. KC is where I grew up and I remember going to the airport several times between 1979 and 1981 and seeing the various colors of all of those Braniff 727s (they were all 727s)

[@alvexok5523]

Most domestic US flights were 727s throughout the 1980s, and latter part of the 1970s (I think they were more 707s before then. But for more than a decade, 727s were the kings of US domestic airline travel. And 747s were the kings of long distance international travel. The secondary aircrafts for US domestic flying throughout the latter 1970s and all throughout the 1980s were the MD80s, DC9s, 737s, and after the 727s took over, the 707s.(707s were the kings until the mid 1970s). And the secondary aircrafts for that same time period for international travel were the DC10s, L1011s, and 767s. It all changed from around the mid 1990s and after, 727s, DC9s, 747s, L1011s, and DC10s became much less common and then almost obsolete after the turn of the new millennium. And flying was taken over by 737s, A320s, and the Embraer aircrafts for US domestic and A330s, A350s, 777s, 787s, and A380s for long distance international

[@michaelcondon2746]

@@alvexok5523 Absolutely not. The aircraft's color had nothing to do with what routes it flew. In the 70' - 80's, when they flew 3 types of aircraft, the 727s (or is that seven hundred and twenty seven 😁) were used for domestic service, the DC-8s on the Latin American routes and the 747 to Hawaii and international.

[@simonaltham9054]

National still fly using the 747 ftreighters you used in your video, saw one only a couple of days ago.

[@hughroney6342]

I am still trying to forget Pan Am, 58 years later, but you people keep reminding me!!

[@DonLeist]

Boy George flew for Pan Am!

[@rondini2]

Mismatched non relevant video clips, pronouncing Boeing model numbers in a stupid way, endless use of tired cliches like ‘plucky, etc etc. Hire a human to narrate this drivel

[@kennethchung4857]

Funny enough, the IATA code for Ozark Airlines “OZ” is currently being used in Asiana Airlines of South Korea as they were scrambling for IATA codes and found OZ vaccant from Ozark merging with TWA. Sadly, it is uncertain if this code will last though.

[@timmymcbastard4596]

Northwest Orient ----Air---✈️---lines. The jingle was like a jet taking off and climbing up thru the skies.