April 01, 1924
First revenue flight of Sabena. View airlines from Belgium.
April 01, 1926
Società Italiana Servizi Aerei (>Ala Littoria) began operations linking Trieste, Venice, Pavia, and Turin with CANT 10 flying boats. View airlines from Italy.
April 01, 1932
INAEC (Iloilo-Negros Air Express Co.) was established (>PAL). View airlines from Philippines.
April 01, 1935
Swissair began services between Zürich and London. View airlines from Switzerland.
April 1st, 1936
Trysil Flyveselskap was founded. View airlines from Norway.
April 01, 1938
North American Aviation finally sells Eastern. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 1940
BOAC officially took over the operations of Imperial Airways and British Airways Limited. View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 01, 1947
New Zealand National Airways Corporation began licensed operations. View airlines from New Zealand.
April 01, 1947
Aeroput (ceased operations during WWII) was renamed JAT Jugoslovenski Aerotransport. View airlines from Yugoslavia.
April 01, 1949
Boeing Stratocruiser entered service with Pan American World Airways. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 1955
First flight of Lufthansa. View airlines from Germany.
April 01, 1956
Seaboard and Western Airlines restarted scheduled all-cargo services across the North Atlantic. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 1960
Holiday Airlines was established at Pomona, California. View airlines from USA.
April 1st, 1960
Gibbes Sepik Airways and Madang Air Services formally ceased to exist, when they were fully absorbed into Mandated Airlines (>Ansett PNG). View airlines from Papua New Guinea.
April 01, 1961
VIASA commenced operations. View airlines from Venezuela.
April 01, 1963
Air Ferry, founded in 1961, start general charter and inclusive tour operations. View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 01, 1965
TEAL changed its name to Air New Zealand. View airlines from New Zealand.
April 01, 1965
NAMC YS-11 entered service with Japan Domestic Airlines. View airlines from Japan.
April 01, 1965
Malaysian Airways absorbed Borneo Airways. View airlines from Malaysia.
April 1st, 1966
Leopard Air, formed in Oct1965 to operate charter, air-taxi and flying training services, started operations. View airlines from Malawi.
April 01, 1969
Air Jamaica, established in Oct1968, restarted operations. View airlines from Jamaica.
April 01, 1970
Bouraq Indonesia Airlines was founded by J A Sumendap. View airlines from Indonesia.
April 1st, 1970
The Wellington Aero Club’s commercial operations were taken over by Capital Air Services ( ^Eagle Airways). View airlines from New Zealand.
April 01, 1971
Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B entered service with British European Airways. View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 1st, 1973
Adastra Aerial Surveys was purchased by East-West Airlines (..^Ansett). View airlines from Australia.
April 01, 1974
British Airways commenced operations after BOAC and British European Airways merge to create the new airline. View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 01, 1974
Air Malta restarted flights with scheduled services to London, Birmingham, Manchester, Rome, Frankfurt, Paris and Tripoli. View airlines from Malta.
April 1st, 1977
IFA (International Freight Airways), formed on 22/Apr1976, started passenger charter services within Europe. View airlines from Belgium.
April 01, 1978
New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) merged with Air New Zealand. View airlines from New Zealand.
April 01, 1980
Aircraft Innsbruck adopts the title Tyrolean Airways when scheduled services begin. View airlines from Austria.
April 1st, 1981
Liard Air, a air charter business was founded by Urs and Marianne Schildknecht in Fort Liard, NWT. View airlines from Canada.
April 01, 1982
Air France flew the Concorde over to Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, Venezuela for the last time. View airlines from France.
April 1st, 1983
Southeastern Commuter merged into Atlantic Southeast (ASA) (..>aha!). View airlines from USA.
April 1st, 1983
Transjet, formed on 24Sep1979, ceased all operations. View airlines from Belgium.
April 1st, 1985
Transwede (i) was originally founded in Växjö by Thomas Johansen for holiday charters (,,>BRA - Braathens Regional Airlines). View airlines from Sweden.
April 01, 1987
Operations of Western and Delta officially merge. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 1988
Toa Domestic Airline changed its name to Japan Air System. View airlines from Japan.
April 01, 1988
Thai Airways International merged with Thai Airways Company (TAC). View airlines from Thailand.
April 01, 1989
Burma Airways renamed to Myanma Airways following the renaming of the country from Burma to Myanmar. View airlines from Myanmar.
April 01, 1990
Maersk Commuter, having ceased operations on 31Mar1990, had its services assumed by its parent, Maersk Air (>Sterling). View airlines from Denmark.
April 01, 1991
KLM Cityhopper was established by the merger of NLM Cityhopper and NetherLines. View airlines from Netherlands.
April 01, 1992
Tradewinds was renamed to SilkAir. View airlines from Singapore.
April 01, 1992
Jet Airways was founded. View airlines from India.
April 1st, 1992
ATS Vulcan was incorporated. View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 1st, 1995
Air Kiribati was established after the collapse of the previous national airline Air Tungaru. View airlines from Kiribati.
April 01, 1996
Air India Regional was founded as Alliance Air. View airlines from India.
April 01, 1997
Vayudoot ceased operations. View airlines from India.
April 01, 1997
JAL establishes JAL Express (JEX). View airlines from Japan.
April 01, 1997
Air Inter, already indirectly under Air France control, was merged with the Company. View airlines from France.
April 01, 1998
Pacific Coastal buys the assets of Wilderness Airlines (1975). View airlines from Canada.
April 01, 2001
Air Engiadina ceased operations & was renamed to Swisswings. View airlines from Switzerland.
April 01, 2004
LTU Austria, set up by LTU and Billa, Austria's largest retail chain, obtained its AOC. View airlines from Austria.
April 01, 2004
Japan Air System was renamed to JAD (Japan Airlines Domestic). View airlines from Japan.
April 01, 2004
JAL/JAS integration was completed. View airlines from Japan.
April 01, 2004
AirBridgeCargo restarted operations. View airlines from Russia.
April 01, 2007
LAB (Lloyd Aereo Boliviano) ceased operations. View airlines from Bolivia.
April 01, 2007
Cygnus Air was rebranded as Gestair Cargo. View airlines from Spain.
April 1st, 2007
LTU was bought by AirBerlin. View airlines from Germany.
April 1st, 2008
The airline business of Kingfisher Airlines was merged into Deccan Aviation and renamed to Kingfisher Red. View airlines from India.
April 1st, 2009
Star Marianas Air, founded in 2008, was and approved by the FAA. View airlines from Northern Marianas Islands.
April 01, 2009
Starline.kz had its airline license revoked. View airlines from Kazakhstan.
April 01, 2009
MAK Air had its AOC revoked. View airlines from Kazakhstan.
April 01, 2009
Kayala Airline (Jeddah) ceased operations. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
April 01, 2009
California Pacific Airlines was founded. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 2010
Air Volga declares bankruptcy & operations ceased. View airlines from Russia.
April 01, 2011
Wizz Air Bulgaria suspended operations and AOC was revoked. View airlines from Bulgaria.
April 01, 2011
Orange Air was founded. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 2012
Air Nippon operations cease (>ANA). View airlines from Japan.
April 1st, 2012
U Airlines was founded as a successor to the failed Crystal Thai Airlines. View airlines from Thailand.
April 1st, 2013
COOPLUNA announced plans to launch operations. Unfortunately it never commenced operations. View airlines from Uruguay.
April 1st, 2013
Orenburzhye was founded. View airlines from Russia.
April 1st, 2013
TwoFlex was formed as a result of the merger of Two Táxi Aéreo and Flex Aero Táxi Aéreo (>Azul Conecta). View airlines from Brazil.
April 1st, 2013
Air Italy merged into Meridiana. View airlines from Italy.
April 01, 2014
Lakeshore Express indefinitely suspended its operations. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 2015
Vernon Aviation restarted charter services from Four Corners Regional Airport, Farmington. View airlines from USA.
April 01, 2015
León Airlines commenced operations. View airlines from Spain.
April 01, 2016
Nordic Aviation was rebranded as Nordica. View airlines from Estonia.
April 01, 2017
Hummingbird Air suspended all operations. View airlines from US Virgin Islands.
April 1st, 2017
Air Micronesia, founded in 1968, was renamed to Continental Micronesia after acquisition by Continental Airlines (... ^UAL) . View airlines from Guam.
April 01, 2019
Fly Pro had its AOC revoked by the Moldovan CAA. View airlines from Moldova.
April 1st, 2020
Trans States Airlines ceased all operations. View airlines from USA.
April 1st, 2020
Shoreline Aviation ceased all operations and closed down. View airlines from USA.