January 1, 2009

Quiz - Defunct airlines #1

This is a quiz about defunct airlines. The questions come from several old quizzes published in the late 1990s/early 2000s 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?


  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?


  3. True or False: Debonair, a regional UK airline, was based in London's Luton Airport.


  4. TWA didn't always mean Trans World Airlines. What was TWA's meaning when it was created?


  5. Which South American airline, formerly part of the Iberia Group, ceased operations in 1997?


  6. Which Canadian charter airline operated a scheduled service between Montreal and Brussels and Hamilton and London, UK in the 1980s?


  7. Which Colorado-based airline had once painted a Boeing 737 in yellow with The Simpsons characters on it?


  8. Which Canadian airline had a short-lived "Proud Wings" logo and color scheme in the late 1990s?


  9. Which airline had smiles painted under its planes and was then merged to USAir?


  10. What was the callsign of Las Vegas-based National Airlines, which flew between 1999 and 2002?