Quiz - Defunct airlines #1

by Sergio Ortega
published in January 2009, from questions published in April 1998

This is a quiz about defunct airlines. The questions come from several old quizzes published over ten years ago on airodyssey.net. Enjoy!

1. Which New York, Kennedy-based airline, flew a fleet entirely made of first-generation Boeing 747 aircraft and folded in 2000?
   
   A. Tower Air
   B. World Airways
   C. New York Air
   D. Regency Airlines
   
   
2. Which airline (a competitor of the airline in Question 1) started a Newark - London Gatwick service in 1983 but filed for bankrupcy in 1986?
   
   A. New York Air
   B. Regency Airlines
   C. PEOPLExpress
   D. Presidential
   
   
3. True or False: Debonair, a regional UK airline, was based in London's Luton Airport.
   
   A. True
   B. False
   
   
4. TWA didn't always mean Trans World Airlines. What was TWA's meaning when it was created?
   
   A. The Worst Airline
   B. Trans Western Airlines
   C. Transcontinental and Western Air
   D. Transit West Airways
   
   
5. Which South American airline, formerly part of the Iberia Group, ceased operations in 1997?
   
   A. Aerolineas Argentinas
   B. LanChile
   C. Servivensa
   D. Viasa
   
   
6. Which Canadian charter airline operated a scheduled service between Montreal and Brussels and Hamilton and London, UK in the 1980s?
   
   A. Odyssey International
   B. Worldways Canada
   C. Nationair Canada
   D. Wardair Canada
   
   
7. Which Colorado-based airline had once painted a Boeing 737 in yellow with The Simpsons characters on it?
   
   A. AccessAir
   B. Capitol Air Express
   C. Western Pacific
   D. Western Airlines
   
   
8. Which Canadian airline had a short-lived "Proud Wings" logo and color scheme in the late 1990s?
   
   A. Air Canada
   B. Air Transat
   C. Canada 3000
   D. Canadian Airlines
   
   
9. Which airline had smiles painted under its planes and was then merged to USAir?
   
   A. Piedmont
   B. Texas Air International
   C. Republic
   D. PSA
   
   
10. What was the callsign of Las Vegas-based National Airlines, which flew between 1999 and 2002?
    
    A. Shamrock
    B. Blue Rock
    C. Red Rock
    D. Hard Rock

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