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Niki (airline)

Niki (Niki Luftfahrt GmbH), also styled Niki or flyNiki, was a leisure airline founded by Niki Lauda in 2003. Based in Vienna, it served Mediterranean destinations until its cessation of operations in 2017.

Northwest Airlines

Northwest Airlines, also known as Northwest Orient, was a major American airline founded in 1926, with hubs in Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Memphis, and merged into Delta in 2010.

Pacific Western Airlines

Pacific Western Airlines was a Canadian airline operating from 1946 to 1987, which grew from bush flying in British Columbia and merged with CP Air to form Canadian Airlines International.

Pan Am

Pan Am, formally Pan American World Airways, was an American airline founded in 1927 to fly mail to Havana; it pioneered transoceanic flight and the jet age before going bankrupt in 1991.

Sabena

Sabena was the national airline of Belgium, founded in 1923 and operating a pioneering network to Africa before going bankrupt in 2001, one of the world's oldest airlines.

SilkAir

SilkAir was a Singapore-based full-service regional airline serving secondary destinations across Asia Pacific from Changi Airport as the regional wing of Singapore Airlines until its full integration in 2021.

Spanair

Spanair was a Spanish airline founded by SAS in 1986, based in Barcelona; once Spain's second largest airline, it ceased operations in January 2012 after bankruptcy.

Swoop (airline)

Swoop was a Canadian ultra-low-cost airline operated by WestJet from Calgary, offering no-frills Boeing 737 fares from 2018 until it was folded into WestJet in 2023.

TezJet Airlines

TezJet Airlines (ТЕЗ ДЖЕТ) was a private Kyrgyz airline based in Bishkek, flying domestic routes and to Tashkent and Moscow, until its certificate was revoked in July 2026.

Thomas Cook Airlines

Thomas Cook Airlines was a British leisure airline based at Manchester Airport that ceased trading in September 2019 with the collapse of Thomas Cook Group.

Thomas Cook Group

Thomas Cook Group was a UK travel group formed in 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel, which collapsed into liquidation in September 2019.

Tigerair

Tigerair, also known as Tiger Airways, was a Singapore-based low-cost airline that began flying in 2004 and merged into sister carrier Scoot in July 2017.

Trans World Airlines

Trans World Airlines (TWA), originally Transcontinental & Western Air, was a major American airline based in Missouri that operated from 1930 to 2001, when American Airlines acquired its assets.

Trans-Canada Air Lines

Trans-Canada Air Lines, also known as TCA or Lignes aériennes Trans-Canada, was Canada's government-owned transcontinental airline, created in 1937 and renamed Air Canada on January 1, 1965.

TruJet

TruJet, formally Turbo Megha Airways, was an Indian low-cost regional airline based in Hyderabad that flew ATR 72s to smaller cities of south India from 2015 to 2022.

US Airways

US Airways, also known as US Air, was a major American airline formed from Allegheny Airlines and named US Airways in 1997, until it merged with American Airlines in 2013.

V Australia

V Australia was the long-haul international airline of Australia's Virgin Blue group, which flew Boeing 777-300ERs between Australia and the United States from 2009 until 2011.

Varig

Varig (Viação Aérea Rio-Grandense) was a Brazilian airline founded in 1927 in Porto Alegre by Otto Ernst Meyer, the country's flag carrier before its 2006 sale.

Virgin America

Virgin America was a California-based American airline operating from 2007 to 2018, known for its premium low-cost product before being acquired by Alaska Air Group in 2016.