Airlines I have flown

You have never been to my airport. In case you were wondering.

 

I'm the only one that's flown Braniff? No wonder they're out of business.

 

Northwest Orient
Northwest
Republic
Delta
United
Southwest
Midway (original)
British Airways
American
Spirit
Air Canada
North Central
Alaska Air

 

Delta
AirTran
Northwest
American
Comair
United
Continental
Eastern
U.S. Airways

Damn, not nearly as many as I expected.

 

Oh God. I'm sure there's some carriers I don't even remember, but here goes ...

Ozark
Texas International
Continental
Midway (Chicago-based version)
American
United
Delta
Northwest
U.S. Air
Vanguard
Southwest
Frontier (new)

I can't remember if our family flew Republic or Continental when we moved from Milwaukee to Indy in 1986. Both had a huge presence in Detroit, where we connected and it was several months before Republic was merged into Northwest. Might need a ruling from Z-Man on that one.

 

As an adult:
Continental
Delta/Comair
Southwest
US Airways

As a child:
Eastern
and some other airlines I don't remember.
only remember Eastern because I still have the plastic wings somewhere.

 

Should commuter airlines count? Nine times out of 10, they're just an off-shoot of a big carrier. I didn't count any of mine.

 

I was going to mention that, Bubs.

Most of the time, if you fly a regional jet that is flying the colors of a major airline, it's a separate airline. Republic, Midwest, Chataqua, Mesa, SkyWest, ASA, etc. Those are operated by those airlines for the major airlines.

And Webby, that may be the coolest site I've ever seen. I'm signing up now.

 

Three that stand out:

Wardair: A defunct Canadian airline that was actually very nice, even in the back -- probably the best airline we ever had. Only airline I've flown that was named after the dude who owned it, Max Ward.

Nationair: A shitbox international charter, also defunct. We were oblvious, but turns out the cockpit window blew out on our descent into London.

VASP: The airline of Brazil, or at least it used to be. Grounded, thank God -- almost died on a flight between New York and Toronto when we went on a long, unexplained plunge. We were given buns for our troubles.

 

That's totally sweet.

I would love to have this for every flight I've ever taken, since I was a kid. I might be close to 1,000.

I'm going to start up my kids on this, so they have a complete record for their life.

 

My one recollection about flying People's Express, circa '85 or so: We were in the back of the plane from D.C. to Newark and they didn't get everyone processed by the time they landed. We were sitting in the back, still waiting to pay for the flight, as people in the front were getting off. To me, if they couldn't get collections done by the time you get to the gate, the flight shoulda been free. Like a pizza.

 

Continental never merged with NW... would have been Republic, which had a Milwaukee hub...