Top 10 Oldest Airlines in the World

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[@vinny2971]

I would love to

[@robman2095]

Good move. As you probably know this video has some terrible errors in the captions and the narration. fortunately a couple of them are quite funny, like Finnair becoming thin air which is quite appropriate as a pun for an airline.

[@sank93923]

I am a scriptwriter for PewDiePie

[@kevinrussell2718]

Would you like another interesting fact about KLM? The King of the Netherlands is a registered KLM pilot, and when not undertaking Royal duties, flies for KLM.

[@mstrmren]

*flew (I think)

[@Ramon73]

@@mstrmren He flew Fokker at KLM and the government plane. When these were phased out a few years ago, he retrained to the 737. He still flies actively on regular flights and the government aircraft.

[@mstrmren]

@@Ramon73 I know, but Government Aircraft are not KLM

[@Ramon73]

@@mstrmren I did not write that.

[@mstrmren]

@@Ramon73 I know. I didn‘t say that you said that.

[@danielemmery4048]

QANTAS has such a rich and beautiful history connecting the rest of the world to our paradise down under

[@100totallyairbus6]

It’s motto is sprite of Australia for a very good reason

[@robman2095]

@@100totallyairbus6 *spirit

[@elisabird6245]

KLM stands for Koninglijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, which roughly means the Royal Aviation Company. You can understand why they abbreviated it.

[@airindiaa3803]

That's amazing!!!...

[@dugagirsang3220]

1935 Long haul KLM Flight : AMSTERDAM - Batavia (now Jakarta)/Bandung via Marseille or Halle-Leipzig - Rome or Budapest/Belgrad - Athens - Rhodes - Alexandria - Lydda - Baghdad - Basra - Bushire - Djask - Karachi - Jaïpur - Allahabad - Calcutta - Akyab - Rangoon - Bangkok - Penang - Medan - Singapore - Palembang - BATAVIA (now Jakarta) - Bandung. All in 5 Days plus 12 Hours. 2 Flights per week.

[@laksi0505]

This the longest long haul flight ever, 2 times a week.

[@kevinkocher737]

Nice video! As I already said, this channel deserves waaaaaaaaaay more attention!

[@Top10Aviation]

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[@jkumm12]

Qantas was founded in 1920 and has operated continuously for over 100 years.

[@GeoTomaceo780]

What are your

[@NotPiere18]

@Ryan001 bruh

[@GeoTomaceo780]

@Ryan001 ! Tomaceo750 ako

[@nygelterns4683]

@@GeoTomaceo780 the fuck

[@GeoTomaceo780]

@@nygelterns4683 !!!! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[@leizirsheidabdalah4700]

Pan AM: "The most experienced airline in the world" KLM: Hold my 100+ years of experience

[@robman2095]

Pan AM: So experienced it died of old age thirty years ago and lives on in name only.

[@manuelblancotellez2064]

Congratulations for Avianca, the pride of Colombia.👍✈🛩🛫

[@Top10Aviation]

Long life Avianca 😍

[@naaichest]

a.k.a great great grandpa of airlines

[@Top10Aviation]

Exactly 👍🏼

[@AndromedaBruv]

But now avianca is on BANKRUPTCY

[@AndromedaBruv]

Well i think so lol

[@danieldrayet2364]

Another side note on KLM Theyre also the only airline to operate every McDonnell Douglas aircraft type Dc2-Md11

[@portuguesnomundo]

Fantastic video!

[@justin-sp7pk]

LOVE THE THUMBNAIL!!!

[@Angel-nl6bm]

Incredible video, as always !

[@Top10Aviation]

Thanks a lot brother 🙏🏼

[@Ramon73]

What is missing is that in 1934 KLM won the De MacRobertson London - Melbourne air race. A regular airliner that carried mail and passengers and came 1st in its category and 2nd in the overall classification. A world achievement among the many fast planes specially prepared for this race.

[@dashamanstevo5326]

Oh the 747-400ER "Longreach" The Qantas old gal named after the town in Queensland where the airline was founded. Initially it was a mail carrier service. That aircraft in its Big Red Roo livery is a beautiful sight. Much prettier aircraft than the A380. It always has special meaning to me, I am either going on an adventure to some far flung corner of the globe, or, She is bringing me home.

[@davidbellette4318]

Qantas 👍

[@Top10Aviation]

😉👍🏼

[@fredy-nw9xz]

Southwest Airlines is a old one too. Also awesome vid

[@erik_griswold]

It’s only 50 years old this year.

[@aaronaustrie]

I love watching these type of vids about aviation industry ❤️😍👌🏾

[@cxa340]

It’s pronounced “Ah-ve-ah-ka” - the letter “A” in Spanish always receives an “Ah” sound never an “Aye” sound. AV merged with TACA, also a long and storied airline, early the past decade and the combined airline now has hubs in Bogotá Colombia, San Salvador El Salvador, and large operations throughout Central America and South America.

[@Rottnwoman]

Americans are so funny in their pronunciations! His Qantas is dangerously close to the popular nickname of "Quaint Ass" 😂

[@nightrider8908]

It's customary for native English speakers to pronounce foreign names as if they were English. A good example is Iberia in this video. An Englishman once asked me how I would pronounce my Finnish surname in English! 😁

[@Changnoi12]

November 1909 gründete Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in Frankfurt am Main die erste Luftfahrtgesellschaft der Welt: die „DELAG“ („Deutsche Luftschifffahrt-Aktiengesellschaft“), die zwischen 1910 und 1913 etwa 34.000 Passagiere transportierte. November 1909, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin founded the first airline in the world in Frankfurt am Main: "DELAG" ("Deutsche Luftschifffahrt-Aktiengesellschaft"), which transported around 34,000 passengers between 1910 and 1913.

[@22YT_]

Garuda was founded in 1947 by the owner of KLM. Before Named Garuda the company name is KLM-IIB or KLM Island to Island Company but since the Round table in 1949 KLM-IIB is lead to Republic of Indonesia and named Indonesian Airways. Using the 1st DC-3 that named _Seulawah_ by Friends and Family of Aceh Northwest of Sumatra. Since Indonesian Airways named little bit not correct so they change it into Garuda Indonesian Airways (GIA) and then it raised by the Goverment of Indonesian the 1st livery is since 1949 - end 1949 as a blank stainless steel with RI 001 on the tail, the 2nd Livery is since 1949 end - 1970 as the Flag of Republic of Indonesian, but there is tragic that that years 5 plane crash but remain unknown models of the plane, 3rd Livery's is in 1970 - 1980 as the modern of Indonesian, there is 3 more crash and the same thing is remain unknown and the 4th livery's is when Garuda is now a new and off from Indonesian but still an Indonesian Airlines since 1980 - 2009 and that count 12 crash one of the crash is MD 10/11 in Japan because false warning engine number 1 is failed in 1996, 1 years later Garuda A300 model crash in Sumatra cause if Inccorect turn and decending fast, and 6 years later a boeing 737 300 land in shallow river in Surakarta, Solo because engine failure when try to avoid storm in Yogyakarta when try to land in Yogyakarta Airport, 5 years later a boeing 737 400 crash in Yogyakarta because low experince of pilot in bumpy ride land. and in 2009 the 5th livery's as known the Garuda Himself with blue feather on the tail and blank white with name Garuda Indonesia and Garuda Logo on it. in 2014 10 years after KLM in Skyteam, KLM-IIB/Garuda joined the Skyteam 2nd best Airlines group company. and thats the story how Garuda was Found. and now is the 80th Aniversary of Garuda. KLM-IIB GIA Airlines of Indonesian

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

Yeah Garuda Indonesia is the second oldest airline in Asia after Philippine Airlines in 1941

[@aaronaustrie]

Cool. At least I know a little about the aviation industry even though I'm not involved in it. Great content bro!!

[@darekdomagaa9520]

LOT Polish Airlines is only 1 year younger than 10th place airline, but airline that transformed into LOT was founded in 1922.

[@Seraphormite]

Hi. Thanks for the video

[@Aviation-lr2hp]

Nice!

[@jarmoac]

I was so excited and proud when Finnair showed up on the list

[@MrBearAsian]

Surprised Qantas is not in 1st. I'm glad I live in Australia and always fly Qantas everytime

[@louisdefunes8952]

Safest airline all time!!

[@mat1c494]

Cool video! 👍

[@Top10Aviation]

Thank you! Feel free to share it 😉

[@actemple3282]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@claudiaaguilar6234]

Good

[@FitzArias]

I don't know all the airline's histories but do know that Avianca was in part one of the reasons Pan Am was founded. The Germans had founded an airline down there (Colombia) and the US wanted to keep an eye on them, thus PA was born.

[@danielpuri1830]

i kinda like your Vids i think i am going to Sub

[@mimzy6067]

:o my airline is the oldest

[@henryballingham7164]

cool

[@separatedig9567]

5:20 I am from Czech Republic, but i have not flown with Czech Airlines but with their owner's Smartwings.

[@perezster]

Thank you for sharing this information. I enjoy your videos.

[@Top10Aviation]

Thanks a lot! 😉

[@maxart3392]

Talking about the airlines founded in the years immediately after 1927, as we read in many of the comments, one should also mention Cubana de Aviación (1929).

[@spongebubatz]

The video is only about the Top 10

[@funstoriesbedtimestories6214]

Hello pls add air india it is the oldest airlines since 1916 June pls add it. It started as tata airlines

[@jamesellis4214]

very interesting!!!!!!!

[@tia_smrdi]

OMG you only have 5k subs you need something like 5 million!

[@Top10Aviation]

Thanks a lot! We're getting there 😉

[@tia_smrdi]

@@Top10Aviation ooooooooooooooooh i got a heart!

[@jarred2177]

The butchered Spanish for Avianca crushed my non existent soul

[@metalvideos1961]

@Mat And what do they speak in colombia? indeed spanish. not a smart comment of you

[@riteshpatel5446]

Nice 👌 thanks 😊

[@Top10Aviation]

Thank you!

[@mikepowell2776]

I think you’ll find that Serbia is just part of the old Jugoslavia. There are also Croatia, Kosovo, Moldavia and other states which were once parts of it. I’ve had the privilege of travelling extensively in Europe prior to COVID and always looked forward to flights with KLM.

[@mikepowell2776]

My bad, sorry; Slovenia not Moldavia. Distracted by visitor.

[@Unix_0]

How do you have 3K subs you deserve at least 70 million

[@erik_griswold]

The company that today uses the name “Delta” dates back to the founding of Northwest Airways in 1926.

[@erik_griswold]

...or the founding of Western Air Express in 1925.

[@ravindrasarsambe]

Any video on concord services

[@Top10Aviation]

Yes you can find it on my channel!

[@lentonwienand762]

You did not include South African Airways, also commenced operations in the early twenties. Although now in much financial difficulties exacerbated by covid

[@davegrohl2532]

SA Airways was founded in 1934 by merging. In this list there are airlines that are operating under the same name since its creation.

[@lentonwienand762]

@@davegrohl2532 OK thanks

[@johnhopkins4920]

@@davegrohl2532 In which case Avianca should not be on this list …

[@HS-yc1yn]

And EgyptAir was the second in Africa that was founded on June 7, 1932 - 89 years ago (in the name of EgyptAir)

[@PLANETIA01]

I only travel overseas or interstate with QANTAS. They have the best service and the best safety record of any airline in the world. I'm very surprised that QANTAS was not No. 1. DM.

[@robman2095]

Many would dispute the best service claim but its record as the safest is indisputable. In fact it has been rated the safest airline every year for over 20 years now, in addition to no lives lost in the jet era. However it cannot come first in this video on the oldest airline if KLM was created a year before it.

[@TheShivanshSharmashorts]

Well Keep it up Buddy 👍

[@Top10Aviation]

Thank you! Feel free to share my videos! 😉

[@AbramsGL]

Mexicana de aviacion founden in 1921 ....✈(R.I.P)

[@selleyfn]

i respect how jet2 is always on the tail but i dint see tui

[@necroslair]

To me the most incredible is Aeroflot - the irony seeing the Soviet Hammer and Sickle painted on a Boeing 777...

[@pineapplemaan9]

I'm going to guess the oldest of an operation is Pam am

[@johnschultz3664]

The Peruvian airlines mentioned in the Delta segment became Pangara (long name Pan American Grace Airways) and operated exclusively along the western part of South America.

[@eladsungsunggernyw2324]

How about Philippine airline?

[@joaopedrokurbhi8829]

9:57 I actually flew on that plane on my birthday back at 2017 - the plane was brand new!

[@ObiWanKenobiTheKingofAll]

Damn that is nice to see that back

[@ranplays6886]

Make a video with EL aL

[@Boeing7478plane]

I love a klm model with gear

[@fredschriks8554]

KLM for ever. If it ain't blue i ain't going 💙

[@Top10Aviation]

💙

[@dominicklmaviation8350]

KLM for ever.

[@Top10Aviation]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@timothycook2917]

Don't want to sound like the Grammar Police, but you mispronounced 'German Junkers' several times in the video. It's actually pronounced like 'Young-kers" Just FYI. "J" in German is pronounced like "y" in English. But I like the content

[@gowes73]

Garuda Indonesia est 26 Jan 1949

[@sarthsingh3271]

KLM👍

[@Top10Aviation]

Have you flown with them? 😉

[@sarthsingh3271]

@@Top10Aviation not yet but soon

[@Schocam]

Shouldn't it be the Wright Brothers Airline from U.S.A. ? First flight 1903.

[@Top10Aviation]

They were the first, but the video is about airlines, so companies conducting commercial flights

[@DestoRRR]

The oldest airline is DELAG in 1909 by the german empire. Its fleet was only zeppelins and dissapeared in 1915

[@star-wo8kd]

Do you know garuda indonesia

[@Nigamaan2]

Not the oldest airline

[@bushranger51]

QANTAS was inaugurated in 1919, not 1920

[@Top10Aviation]

I took the info I found on Qantas' website. I guess they know when they inaugurated their airline?

[@walterbakker2690]

Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd was registered as a business on 16 November 1920.

[@clarkvincentga-as]

Philippine Airlines is the oldest airline in Asia, though you forgot to include it in this video

[@spongebubatz]

It‘s about the oldest airlines worldwide, which are all a lot older than PAL. Did you even think about that!?

[@hommedterre1]

Content-wise this video is highly interesting even for me that have served 35 years in the civil aviation industry with three airlines in 4 countries. Regrettably, the names of the airlines have been butchered. Iberia and Avianca as examples. Please get you pronunciations right if you tend to produce more such documentaries about the industry.

[@andyb7719]

Qantas is still the safest airline in the world

[@Rottnwoman]

Debatable - it's between them and Hawaiian Airlines.

[@nhabgati4352]

QANTAS “the flying kangaroo” 🕊🦘

[@semajsachairi84]

Bahamas air

[@francoisvillon1300]

Джанкерс :)))

[@ChilzSub0]

lesgo KLMMMM

[@danielpuri1830]

and can you do Austrian cause i come fromm Austria :)

[@NoobTheBeginner]

bruh Austrian Airlines/Founded September 30, 1957

[@xpstudios4014]

There is a third founder for QANTAS to!

[@Rottnwoman]

Umm. Hawaiian Airlines 1927? We are Australian but use Hawaiian for holiday travel. My husband's job takes him all over our country regularly so when we travel for fun we like a change. Both great airlines.

[@SkippingTony]

You forgot Air India, It's 91 years old now.

[@jadeeauguste3067]

What about British Airways also founded in 1919 along with KLM under the name Aircraft Transport and Travel?? They scheduled the world's first international air service from London to Paris.

[@soup1029]

British airways was founded in 1984…

[@spongebubatz]

Exactly, "only" 1974 as it was a completely new brand out of two airlines which ceased to exist, not a simple merger or a renaming. That’s why BA is 47 years old this year

[@mindwalk2007]

The only two airlines in this video that have actually operated under the same name for more than a hudred years ar KLM and Qantas....

[@john-alexcdmtv1627]

I love KLM

[@cal9918]

Bruh he said qantas, Australia and Queensland, it ok, most poeple don't get it right

[@Rottnwoman]

NO he said Qantassss.

[@ChilzSub0]

MY HOME COUNTRIES FLAG SHIP IS NUMBER 1

[@laksi0505]

The number 1 KLM

[@ilmarilah1195]

My Dad is a Finnair pilot

[@airindia182theplanehuman8]

Don’t forget about TWA it’s also an old airline

[@angelitacancholamoreno4830]

No longer exists

[@clockmanedits]

"thin air"💀

[@playstatlon1594]

What about the whight brothers plane. It works

[@fanofflight200]

But I should wait

[@rajabel334]

KLM of course

[@AtciWatci]

Qantas started on 1922

[@LPpauwels]

For some reason I thought that Iberia was a new airline.

[@airbusaviation6548]

No philippine airlines? You have got to be kidding me? Philippine airlines is the oldest airline in asia.

[@ianhoad2211]

Only 80 years old - founded 1941

[@aron1332]

So of it is the oldest airlines in Asia, it is automatically included in the oldest airlines in the world?

[@TinaWCUEYT]

4:23 that’s why he’s da goat da goat But why spelled incorrectly 💀

[@jasonpayne1240]

😢 United Airlines, my family business didn’t make the list 🤔 maybe they’re like #12

[@thomasshort5772]

i own shares in finnair and the first plane was a ju32

[@aviationgaming1564]

It’s not “aero-float” it’s “aero-flawt”

[@GG-rq4qm]

But how is Delta airlines older than the 3 airlines that began in 1927 when it was born in 1928?

[@52JCD]

KLM 1st in the handicap class 1934 Melbourne race.

[@Top10Aviation]

Wow nice!

[@flamingfrancis]

So did they enter a plane in the Melbourne Cup? And it won... Jokes aside, there's a great story around the sponsor of the air race from London you mention and we can literally say the winner got the chocolates Read about a great Aussie pioneer. www.historyvictoria.org.au/collections-lounge/macrobertson-confectionery/

[@52JCD]

@@flamingfrancis I also like the story about the emergency landing in Albury. Without the Aussies it would not have happened. www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/leisure/museum-and-libraries/collections/local-and-social-history/the-uiver

[@jg_mg2364]

And they also have Qantas Link

[@Rottnwoman]

And Jetstar.