Some airlines that went out of service in the last decade.

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erlendursmari@reddit

Iceland is truly a world leader in bankrupt airlines (Play and WOW in this list). Everyone except Icelandair eventually goes bankrupt.

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SapphosLemonBarEnvoy@reddit

Which is too bad to me, because I liked flying WOW between the US and France.

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Bitter-Cheetah-2294@reddit

Because long haul budget rarely works

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gojarinn@reddit

Primera Air

Iceland Express as well.

Fairly many for such a small country.

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ErIDontKnowMaybe@reddit

I took a play crew home from stn the day they folded. They were trying to get back to Iceland and it was such a shame. They were in remarkably good spirits though.

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The crew that was supposed to fly me home. Opened up Icelandic news media while I waited in the departure hall and saw Play ceases operations. Still it said go to gate so we went to the gate and there it had changed to canceled. We quickly opened up the icelandair website and booked tickets on the next flight home. After like 20 minutes all flights to iceland were booked up for the next 2-3 days and prices had sky rocketed.

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Coreysurfer@reddit

Ah yes..

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itseclipse101@reddit

AirBerlin still hurts

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awacsCZE@reddit

Czech Airlines - 5th oldest operating airline at the time ceased operations in 2024

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glumanda12@reddit

Let’s be honest, OK was on life support since half term of Tvrdik… should have been closed in 2019

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awacsCZE@reddit

Well, he started it, but it's not like any other political representation after him cared.

Still baffling to keep Smartwings brand and throw away 100 years old branding into the bin.

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glumanda12@reddit

Don’t worry, they’ll rebrand to Pegasus slowly.

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Myfooty94@reddit

Tigerair Australia too

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Shockwave2309@reddit

AirBerlin is so damn deserved

Shittiest airline EVER!

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russellvt@reddit

Memories of the old green and white Reno airline being absorbed into American (?), and then spun back off (?) to SWA

Then again, I'm partially envisioned these changes as SJC finally flattened their C Terminal as they created a new "International" B Terminal... and A took on its own livelihood.

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redyambox@reddit

Missing Dragonair/Cathay Dragon

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Vegetable_Captain886@reddit

Add Kingfisher too!

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MaximumDoughnut@reddit

Missing Swoop.

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FastSnailMail@reddit

and Lynx

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Musclecar123@reddit

The best way to become a millionaire is to start with a billion dollars and buy an airline.

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airpab1@reddit

Indeed

Unless you’re Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos

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AtariFerrariNH@reddit

Plus you have Compass, TSA, Silver, ExpressJet, Great Lakes and Miami Air.

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hercdriver4665@reddit

Great Mistakes was a punchline of an operation.

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AtariFerrariNH@reddit

Yeah, but there are a lot of pilots that got their start with them, and moved on to bigger and better things

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mexicannascar@reddit

Bonza too down here in Australia

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biggsteve81@reddit

Silver was such a strange airline. Flying the ATR on a bunch of random routes to Florida that were already served by other ULCCS at neighboring airports was an odd choice.

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pipic_picnip@reddit

Jet airways?

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GusTheProspector@reddit

I miss WOW. $300 r/t from the US to Europe with a layover in Iceland was pretty nice.

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lokfuhrer_@reddit

Had one trip on one of their Bulgarian registered planes in the white livery. Seemed like a good laugh!

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BankHottas@reddit

Air Berlin my beloved. I drew so many planes while I was in school and the Air Berlin livery was always my favorite one to do

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schakoska@reddit

It's my fault. If it's not Boeing, I'm not going

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prex10@reddit

There's never any love for Skybus

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Golgen_boy@reddit

In India the saddest was Jet Airways

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Saltyspaceballs@reddit

Saw their 77Ws parked up when I was in Delhi last week, so sad seeing such beautiful machines rotting in the sun

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BenjaminKohl@reddit

They’re supposed to be picked up by Challenge airlines and converted to freighters but they’ve been sitting in the sun for 7 almost 8 years, they’re gonna have to really be refurbished to not have awful reliability

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hercdriver4665@reddit

It’s almost as if the ULCC biz model isn’t sustainable in long term

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CMDRJohnCasey@reddit

Alitalia too

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bigswede_@reddit

Aren't Play and Wow basically the same airline - same Icelandic bankruptcy tycoon behind them..

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samuraijon@reddit

shame one you, fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice

who thought it was a great idea to believe their business plan the second time around?

i also didn't know they had gone under, i checked wiki just now and it looks like they died last year sept. wow.

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AWalkDownMemoryLane@reddit

No, PLAY was founded by two former WOW air executives and mostly owned by an Irish investment fund. Not sure what Icelandic bankruptcy tycoon you're referring to.

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Rayuzan_Mojavec@reddit

So you're saying the tycoon didn't learn anything

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Brutal_De1uxe@reddit

Flybe in the UK as well

Weren't Thomas Cook taken over by TUI? And Air Berlin by Lufthansa? Or were they bankrupt first then bought up?

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SuperFriendlyAv8or@reddit

And Monarch!

Thomas Cook's high-street brand was bought by a Chinese company and continues to operate but not the airline. You might be thinking of their partnership with Condor in Germany.

Some of Air Berlin's subsidiaries were bought by Lufthansa and then absorbed into Eurowings.

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AWalkDownMemoryLane@reddit

Lufthansa Group did buy LGW but ultimately sold it to Zeitfracht, the owners of German Airways. LGW also never merged into Eurowings; Eurowings ended their contract due to the pandemic and LGW collapsed.

Air Berlin Aviation was acquired by Thomas Cook becoming Thomas Cook Aviation and Niki's assets went to Lauda.

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Humble_Guarantee_915@reddit

it’s a joke

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Benabad-2008@reddit (OP)

The entire airline

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selfhostcusimbored@reddit

Was ATA the last major airline to go out of business in the U.S. on this scale?

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SubjectiveAssertive@reddit

I'd be curious to see this for each decade...