Throwbacks

The ultra-luxe carrier became a favorite of Hollywood and the jet set but couldn’t turn a profit.

The carrier revived Chicago Midway Airport and chartered new territory in a reshaped and deregulated industry.

Holland America’s Zuiderdam will retrace the carrier’s original routes through the Caribbean.

The low-fare pioneer that changed how Americans fly — and paid the price for overreach.

The Dallas-based airline is widely-considered to be a main driver in the demise of early-1990s plans to bring high-speed rail to Texas.

The merger of United and Continental — cemented on March 3, 2012 — is one of the industry’s more notable transformations.

Delta once maintained a strong presence in Frankfurt, Germany. A relic of Pan Am, the airline also flew from Frankfurt to several European markets.

In the early months of 2001, low-cost competition was heating up in Canada. WestJet had started operations a few years ago in 1996 and was growing quickly. Discount airline Canada 3000 had been a charter operator in Canada for many years but began offering scheduled flights in May of 2001. The world was also seeing […]

On November 30, 1988, Air Europa performed its first transatlantic service in a twin-engine aircraft. It is 34 years since this operation marked an important milestone in being the first Spanish airline to perform an ETOPS flight. The ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) regulation was issued in 1985 and gathered the necessary requirements that […]

Zuliana De Aviacion was a Venezuelan airline formed in 1985 and based in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Initially starting out as a cargo airline, it later started passenger flights. In addition to several domestic routes, the airline expanded into Colombia as well as started international flights to the U.S. with a route to Miami. […]