This month, we had an advertisement published in an issue of
Maclean’s of 1989. The mystery airline had just merged with Wardair, before going out of business about 10 years later.
Click or tap on the ad to reveal the answer.
How to guess it?
Which airline bought Wardair in 1989? This one. It ran ads for months in 1989 showing the logos of the two airlines side by side while showcasing their crews in respective uniforms. The message was the same every time: this airline's fleet met Wardair’s superb service. Before going out of business, they still flew to the cities depicted on the map except for Manchester and Copenhagen.
Statistics
In a multiple-choice poll,
69% of players got the right answer, and 31% got the wrong answer. The most popular wrong answer was Air Canada (14%).
